Isa 3:9, Jer 2:34, 3:2, Eze 16:16-22, 22:3-12, 24-31, 23:5-21, 24:7 | ESV | STEP | For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom ; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves .

9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin ^alike Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
^bFor they have brought evil on themselves.

Jeremiah 2:34

34 Also on your skirts is found
^cthe lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them ^dbreaking in.
Yet in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 3:2

2 Lift up your eyes to ^ethe bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
^fBy the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
^gYou have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.

Ezekiel 16:16-22

16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. ^{▼▼The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain} 17 You also took ⁱyour beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and ^jmade for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, ^kand set my oil and my incense before them. 19 ^lAlso my bread that I gave you— ^mI fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for ⁿa pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. 20 ^oAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and ^pthese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember ^qthe days of your youth, ^rwhen you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

Ezekiel 22:3-12

3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that ^sher time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty ^tby the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought ^uyour days near, the appointed time of ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until} your years has come. ^wTherefore 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; ^xyour name is defiled; ^yyou are full of tumult.

6 “Behold, ^zthe princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother ^aaare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^absuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^acare wronged in you. 8 ^adYou have despised my holy things and ^aeprofaned my Sabbaths. 9 ^afThere are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you ^agwho eat on the mountains; ^ahthey commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you ^aimen uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 ^ajOne commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; ^akanother lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; ^alanother in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you ^amthey take bribes to shed blood; ^anyou 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 ^apme you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:24-31

24 “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is ^aqnot cleansed ^aror rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 ^asThe conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is ^atlike a roaring lion ^autearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 ^avHer priests ^awhave done violence to my law and ^axhave profaned my holy things. ^ayThey have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and ^azthey have disregarded my Sabbaths, ^baso that I am profaned among them. 27 ^bbHer princes in her midst are like wolves ^bctearing the prey, ^bdshedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And ^beher prophets have smeared whitewash for them, ^bfseeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land ^bghave practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and ^bhhave extorted from the sojourner without justice. 30 ^biAnd I sought for a man among them ^bjwho should build up the wall ^bkand stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore ^blI have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned ^bmtheir way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 23:5-21

5 “Oholah played the whore ^bnwhile she was mine, and ^boshe lusted after her lovers ^bpthe Assyrians, warriors 6 clothed in purple, ^bqgovernors and commanders, ^brall of them desirable young men, ^bshorsemen riding on horses. 7 She 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. 8 She did not give up her whoring ^btthat 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. 9 Therefore ^buI delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10 ^bvThese uncovered her nakedness; ^bwthey seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became ^bxa byword among women, ^bywhen judgment had been executed on her.

11 ^bz“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became ^camore corrupt than her sister ^{▼▼Hebrew than she} in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, ^ccall of them desirable young men. 13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. 14 But she carried her whoring further. She saw men ^cdportrayed on the wall, the ^ceimages of ^cfthe Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15 wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 16 When she saw them, she lusted after them and ^cgsent messengers to them ^chin Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her ^ciinto the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, ^cjshe turned from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. 19 Yet she increased her whoring, ^ckremembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt 20 and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. 21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed ^{▼▼Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew bosom for the sake of} your young breasts.”

Ezekiel 24:7

7 For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on ^cmthe bare rock; ^cnshe did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.