Eze 22:2-15 | ESV | STEP | And you, son of man , will you judge , will you judge the bloody city ? Then declare to her all her abominations .

2 “And you, ^ason of man, ^bwill you judge, will you judge ^cthe bloody city? ^dThen declare to her all her abominations. 3 You 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! 4 You 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. 5 Those 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. 7 Father 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. 10 In 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. 12 In 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.

13 “Behold, ^acI strike my hand at ^adthe dishonest gain that you have made, and at ^aethe blood that has been in your midst. 14 ^afCan your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? ^agI the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. 15 ^ahI will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and ^aiI will consume your uncleanness out of you.