The Sins of Jerusalem
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations Ezk 24:6Ezk 24:9Act 7:52Ezk 20:4Hos 4:2Isa 58:1Mat 27:25Nam 3:1 and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself, Ezk 22:272Ki 21:2-92Pe 2:3Ezk 12:25Ezk 22:4Ezk 22:6Ezk 23:37Ezk 23:45 you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. 2Ki 21:16Ezk 16:57Ezk 22:2Ezk 5:14-15Psa 44:13-141Ki 9:71Th 2:162Ch 7:20 Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil. Isa 22:2Jer 15:2-3
See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood. Ezk 22:27Isa 1:23Dan 9:8Jer 2:26-27Jer 32:32Jer 5:5Mic 2:1Mic 3:1-3 Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed. Deu 27:16Exo 22:21-22Lev 20:9Jer 7:6Mal 3:5Mat 15:4-6Mrk 7:10Zec 7:10
You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths. Ezk 23:38-39Ezk 20:13Ezk 22:26Ezk 20:21Ezk 20:24Amo 8:4-6Lev 19:30Mal 1:12 Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency. Hos 4:14Hos 4:10Hos 4:2Lev 19:161Co 10:18-21Exo 20:16Ezk 16:43Ezk 18:11
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity. Lev 18:19Ezk 18:6Lev 18:7-8Lev 20:111Ch 5:11Co 5:12Sa 16:21-22Amo 2:7 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter. 2Sa 13:14Lev 18:15Lev 18:9Lev 20:17Ezk 18:11Lev 18:20Lev 20:10Lev 20:12
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD. Ezk 23:35Deu 27:25Mic 7:2-3Deu 16:19Deu 23:19Ezk 18:8Jer 2:32Lev 25:35-36
Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst. Ezk 21:17Isa 33:15Amo 2:6-8Ezk 21:14Ezk 22:271Th 4:6Amo 3:10Amo 8:4-6 Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act. Ezk 21:7Ezk 17:24Ezk 24:141Co 10:221Sa 15:29Ezk 28:9Heb 10:31Isa 31:3 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness. Neh 1:8Deu 4:27Ezk 22:22Zec 7:14Ezk 36:19Lev 26:331Pe 4:12Deu 28:25 And when you have defiled yourself 1in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’” Ezk 6:7Psa 83:18Ezk 7:241Ki 20:131Ki 20:28Dan 4:25Dan 4:32-35Exo 8:22
The Refining Furnace
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver. Isa 1:22Psa 119:119Isa 48:10Jer 6:28-30Pro 17:3Ezk 22:20Isa 1:25Isa 31:9
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem. Ezk 11:7Ezk 24:3-6Mat 13:30Mat 13:40-42Mic 4:12 Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you. Ezk 21:31-32Ezk 24:13Isa 54:16Jer 4:11-12Jer 4:20Ezk 22:21
Yes, I will gather you together and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted within the city. 2Ki 25:9Deu 29:20Deu 32:22Deu 4:24Ezk 15:6-7Ezk 20:47-48Ezk 22:20-22Isa 30:33 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted within the city. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath upon you.’” Ezk 20:33Ezk 20:8Hos 5:10Ezk 22:16Ezk 22:31Rev 16:1
Israel’s Wicked Leaders
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, say to her, ‘In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.’ 2Ch 28:222Ch 36:14-16Isa 1:5Isa 9:13Jer 2:30Ezk 24:13Jer 44:16-19Jer 5:3
The conspiracy of the princes 2in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her. Hos 6:9Ezk 13:19Jer 11:9Jer 2:341Ki 22:11-131Ki 22:232Pe 2:1-3Ezk 13:10-16
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. Lev 10:10Ezk 22:8Ezk 44:23Mal 2:81Sa 2:12-17Jer 2:8Mic 3:11-121Sa 2:22
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain. Ezk 22:13Ezk 22:6Isa 1:23Ezk 19:3-6Ezk 22:25Ezk 45:9Hos 7:1-7Jas 2:6-7
Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken. Ezk 13:6-7Ezk 13:10-16Jer 23:25-32Isa 30:10Ezk 13:22-23Ezk 21:29Ezk 22:25Jer 23:21
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice. Ezk 22:7Exo 23:9Exo 22:21Isa 5:7Jer 5:31Lev 19:33Psa 94:6Amo 3:10
I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one. Isa 59:16Jer 5:1Psa 106:23Gen 18:23-32Ezk 13:5Isa 63:5Exo 32:10-14Jer 15:1 So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.” Ezk 16:43Ezk 7:8-9Ezk 9:10Ezk 7:3Rom 2:8-9Ezk 11:21Ezk 22:21-22