Ezek 21:28 ¶ "And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,' and say: 'A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning--
Ezek 21:29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end.
Ezek 21:30 'Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Ezek 21:31 'I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.
Ezek 22:1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek 22:2 "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
Ezek 22:3 "You shall say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makes idols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!
Ezek 22:4 "You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.
Ezek 22:5 "Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you of ill repute, full of turmoil.
Ezek 22:6 ¶ "Behold, the rulers of Israel, each according to his power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.
Ezek 22:7 "They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.
Ezek 22:8 "You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.
Ezek 22:9 "Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.
Ezek 22:10 "In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.
Ezek 22:11 "One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Ezek 22:12 "In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me," declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 22:13 ¶ "Behold, then, I smite My hand at your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you.
Ezek 22:14 "Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken and will act.
Ezek 22:15 "I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.
Ezek 22:16 "You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am the LORD.""'