Ezekiel 22 (NET)

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Ezekiel 22:1¹The Lord ’s message came to me:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Ezekiel 22:2²“As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment? Are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? Then confront her with all her abominable deeds!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 20:4 Ezek 24:6 Ezek 24:9 Isa 58:1 1 Tim 5:20 2 Kgs 21:16 Acts 7:52 Hos 4:2 Matt 27:25 Nah 3:1

Ezekiel 22:3³Then say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 22:27 2 Kgs 21:2-9 2 Pet 2:3 Ezek 12:25 Ezek 22:4 Ezek 22:6 Ezek 23:37 Ezek 23:45 Ezek 24:6-9 Ezek 7:2-12

Ezekiel 22:4⁴you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 21:16 Ezek 16:57 Ezek 22:2 Ezek 5:14-15 Ps 44:13-14 1 Kgs 9:7 1 Thess 2:16 2 Chr 7:20 Dan 9:16 Deut 28:37

Ezekiel 22:5⁵Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, full of turmoil.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 22:2 Jer 15:2-3

Ezekiel 22:6⁶“‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 22:27 Isa 1:23 Dan 9:8 Jer 2:26-27 Jer 32:32 Jer 5:5 Mic 2:1 Mic 3:1-3 Mic 3:9-11 Neh 9:34

Ezekiel 22:7⁷They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 27:16 Exod 22:21-22 Lev 20:9 Jer 7:6 Mal 3:5 Mark 7:10 Matt 15:4-6 Zech 7:10 Deut 27:19 Deut 5:16

Ezekiel 22:8⁸You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 23:38-39 Ezek 20:13 Ezek 22:26 Ezek 20:21 Ezek 20:24 Amos 8:4-6 Lev 19:30 Mal 1:12 Mal 1:6-8

Ezekiel 22:9⁹Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 4:14 Hos 4:10 Hos 4:2 Lev 19:16 1 Cor 10:18-21 Exod 20:16 Ezek 16:43 Ezek 18:11 Ezek 18:6 Matt 26:59

Ezekiel 22:10¹⁰They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 18:19 Ezek 18:6 Lev 18:7-8 Lev 20:11 1 Chr 5:1 1 Cor 5:1 2 Sam 16:21-22 Amos 2:7 Deut 27:20 Deut 27:23

Ezekiel 22:11¹¹One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister—his father’s daughter —within you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 13:14 Lev 18:15 Lev 18:9 Lev 20:17 Ezek 18:11 Lev 18:20 Lev 20:10 Lev 20:12 1 Cor 6:9 2 Sam 13:1

Ezekiel 22:12¹²They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 23:35 Deut 27:25 Mic 7:2-3 Deut 16:19 Deut 23:19 Ezek 18:8 Jer 2:32 Lev 25:35-36 Ps 106:21 Ps 15:5

Ezekiel 22:13¹³“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:17 Isa 33:15 Amos 2:6-8 Ezek 21:14 Ezek 22:27 1 Thess 4:6 Amos 3:10 Amos 8:4-6 Jer 5:26-27 Jer 7:9-11

Ezekiel 22:14¹⁴Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:7 Ezek 17:24 Ezek 24:14 1 Cor 10:22 1 Sam 15:29 Ezek 28:9 Heb 10:31 Isa 31:3 Isa 45:9 Jer 13:21

Ezekiel 22:15¹⁵I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Neh 1:8 Deut 4:27 Ezek 22:22 Zech 7:14 Ezek 36:19 Lev 26:33 1 Pet 4:12 Deut 28:25 Deut 28:64 Ezek 12:14-15

Ezekiel 22:16¹⁶You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 6:7 Ps 83:18 Ezek 7:24 1 Kgs 20:13 1 Kgs 20:28 Dan 4:25 Dan 4:32-35 Exod 8:22 Ezek 25:3 Ezek 39:28

Ezekiel 22:17¹⁷The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Ezekiel 22:18¹⁸“Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:22 Ps 119:119 Isa 48:10 Jer 6:28-30 Prov 17:3 Ezek 22:20 Isa 1:25 Isa 31:9 Isa 48:4 Lam 4:1-2

Ezekiel 22:19¹⁹Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you have become slag, look out! I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 11:7 Ezek 24:3-6 Matt 13:30 Matt 13:40-42 Mic 4:12

Ezekiel 22:20²⁰As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can blow on them to melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:31-32 Ezek 24:13 Isa 54:16 Jer 4:11-12 Jer 4:20 Ezek 22:21

Ezekiel 22:21²¹I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:9 Deut 29:20 Deut 32:22 Deut 4:24 Ezek 15:6-7 Ezek 20:47-48 Ezek 22:20-22 Isa 30:33 Isa 64:2 Isa 64:7

Ezekiel 22:22²²As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 20:33 Ezek 20:8 Hos 5:10 Ezek 22:16 Ezek 22:31 Rev 16:1

Ezekiel 22:23²³The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Ezekiel 22:24²⁴“Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that receives no rain or showers in the day of my anger.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 28:22 2 Chr 36:14-16 Isa 1:5 Isa 9:13 Jer 2:30 Ezek 24:13 Jer 44:16-19 Jer 5:3 Jer 6:29 Zeph 3:2

Ezekiel 22:25²⁵Her princes within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows within it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 6:9 Ezek 13:19 Jer 11:9 Jer 2:34 1 Kgs 22:11-13 1 Kgs 22:23 2 Pet 2:1-3 Ezek 13:10-16 Ezek 22:27-29 Isa 56:11

Ezekiel 22:26²⁶Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore my Sabbaths, and I am profaned in their midst.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 10:10 Ezek 22:8 Ezek 44:23 Mal 2:8 1 Sam 2:12-17 Jer 2:8 Mic 3:11-12 1 Sam 2:22 Ezek 36:20 Jer 15:19

Ezekiel 22:27²⁷Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey—shedding blood and destroying lives—so they can get dishonest profit.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 22:13 Ezek 22:6 Isa 1:23 Ezek 19:3-6 Ezek 22:25 Ezek 45:9 Hos 7:1-7 Jas 2:6-7 Jas 5:1-4 Matt 21:13

Ezekiel 22:28²⁸Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 13:6-7 Ezek 13:10-16 Jer 23:25-32 Isa 30:10 Ezek 13:22-23 Ezek 21:29 Ezek 22:25 Jer 23:21 Jer 28:15 Jer 28:2

Ezekiel 22:29²⁹The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 22:7 Exod 23:9 Exod 22:21 Isa 5:7 Jer 5:31 Lev 19:33 Ps 94:6 Amos 3:10 Isa 10:2 Ezek 18:12

Ezekiel 22:30³⁰“I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:16 Jer 5:1 Ps 106:23 Gen 18:23-32 Ezek 13:5 Isa 63:5 Exod 32:10-14 Jer 15:1

Ezekiel 22:31³¹So I have poured my anger on them and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:43 Ezek 7:8-9 Ezek 9:10 Ezek 7:3 Rom 2:8-9 Ezek 11:21 Ezek 22:21-22

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