Ezekiel 22:2-16

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.

6Behold, 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 fathersnakedness; 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.

13Behold, 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. 16And ajyou shall be profaned by your own doing akin the sight of the nations, aland you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 23:4-13

4Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. amThey became mine, and they anbore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is aoSamaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

5Oholah played the whore apwhile she was mine, and aqshe lusted after her lovers arthe Assyrians, warriors 6clothed in purple, asgovernors and commanders, atall of them desirable young men, auhorsemen riding on horses. 7She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. 8She did not give up her whoring avthat she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. 9Therefore awI delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10 axThese uncovered her nakedness; aythey seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became aza byword among women, bawhen judgment had been executed on her.

11 bb“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became bcmore corrupt than her sister
Hebrew  than she
in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.
12She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, beall of them desirable young men. 13And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.
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