Ezekiel 22:1-12
Israel’s Shedding of Blood
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2“And you, ason of man, bwill you judge, will you judge cthe bloody city? dThen declare to her all her abominations. 3You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that eher time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4You have become guilty fby the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought gyour days near, the appointed time of ▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until
your years has come. iTherefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; jyour name is defiled; kyou are full of tumult. 6“Behold, lthe princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7Father and mother mare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner nsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow oare wronged in you. 8 pYou have despised my holy things and qprofaned my Sabbaths. 9 rThere are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you swho eat on the mountains; tthey commit lewdness in your midst. 10In you umen uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 vOne commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; wanother lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; xanother in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12In you ythey take bribes to shed blood; zyou take interest and profit ▼
▼That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but abme you have forgotten, declares the Lord God. Acts 7:51-52
51 ac“You stiff-necked people, aduncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. aeAs your fathers did, so do you. 52 afWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of agthe Righteous One, ahwhom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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