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Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 22

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Ezekiel 22 NASB - New American Standard BibleEzekiel 22 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 22 of Ezekiel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  2. “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
  3. You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord [a]GOD, “A city 1shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makes idols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!
  4. You have become 2guilty by [b]the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your [c]day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a 3reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.
  5. Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you of ill repute, full of 4turmoil.
  6. ¶ “Behold, the 5rulers of Israel, each according to his [d]power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.
  7. They have 6treated father and mother lightly within you. The 7alien they have oppressed in your midst; the 8fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.
  8. You have 9despised My holy things and 10profaned My sabbaths.
  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 11committed acts of lewdness.
  10. In you [e]they have 12uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was 13unclean in her menstrual impurity.
  11. One has committed abomination with his 14neighbor’s wife and another has lewdly defiled his 15daughter-in-law. And another in you has 16humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
  12. In you they have 17taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken 18interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by 19oppression, and you have 20forgotten Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
  13. ¶ “Behold, then, I smite My hand at your 21dishonest gain which you have acquired and at [f]the bloodshed which is among you.
  14. Can 22your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? 23I, the LORD, have spoken and will act.
  15. I will 24scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will 25consume your uncleanness from you.
  16. You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will 26know that I am the LORD.”’”
  17. ¶ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  18. “Son of man, the house of Israel has become 27dross to Me; all of them are 28bronze and tin and iron and lead in the 29furnace; they are the dross of silver.
  19. Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
  20. As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the 30furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath and I will lay you there and melt you.
  21. I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.
  22. As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, the LORD, have 31poured out My wrath on you.’”
  23. ¶ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  24. “Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is 32not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’
  25. There is a 33conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have 34devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many 35widows in the midst of her.
  26. Her 36priests have done violence to My law and have 37profaned My holy things; they have made no 38distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the 39unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
  27. Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and 40destroying lives in order to get 41dishonest gain.
  28. Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing 42false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
  29. The people of the land have practiced 43oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have 44oppressed the sojourner without justice.
  30. I 45searched for a man among them who would 46build up the wall and 47stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found [g]no one.
  31. Thus I have poured out My 48indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; 49their way I have brought upon their heads,” declares the Lord GOD.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  2. ^ Lit your
  3. ^ Lit days
  4. ^ Lit arm
  5. ^ Lit he has
  6. ^ Lit your
  7. ^ Lit not

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Eze 22:6, 27; 23:37, 45
  2. ^ 2Ki 21:16; Eze 24:7, 8
  3. ^ Ps 44:13, 14; Eze 5:14, 15; 16:57
  4. ^ Is 22:2
  5. ^ Is 1:23; Eze 22:27
  6. ^ Ex 20:12; Le 20:9; De 5:16; 27:16
  7. ^ Ex 22:21f; 23:9; De 24:17; Je 7:6; Zc 7:10
  8. ^ Ex 22:22; Eze 22:25; Ml 3:5
  9. ^ Eze 22:26
  10. ^ Eze 20:13, 21, 24; 23:38, 39
  11. ^ Eze 23:29; Ho 4:2, 10, 14
  12. ^ Le 18:8
  13. ^ Le 18:19; Eze 18:6
  14. ^ Eze 18:11; 33:26
  15. ^ Le 18:15
  16. ^ 2Sa 13:11-14
  17. ^ Ex 23:8; De 16:19; 27:25; Mc 7:2, 3
  18. ^ Le 25:36; De 23:19
  19. ^ Le 19:13
  20. ^ Ps 106:21; Eze 23:35
  21. ^ Is 33:15; Am 2:6-8; Mc 2:2
  22. ^ Eze 21:7
  23. ^ Eze 17:24
  24. ^ De 4:27; Ne 1:8; Eze 20:23; Zc 7:14
  25. ^ Eze 23:27, 48
  26. ^ Ps 83:18; Eze 6:7
  27. ^ Ps 119:119; Is 1:22; La 4:1
  28. ^ Je 6:28-30
  29. ^ Pr 17:3; Is 48:10
  30. ^ Is 1:25
  31. ^ Eze 20:8, 33; Ho 5:10
  32. ^ Is 9:13; Je 2:30; Eze 24:13; Zp 3:2
  33. ^ Je 11:9; Ho 6:9
  34. ^ Je 2:34; Eze 13:19; 22:27
  35. ^ Je 15:8; Eze 22:7
  36. ^ Je 2:8, 26; Eze 7:26
  37. ^ 1Sa 2:12-17, 22; Eze 22:8
  38. ^ Le 10:10; Eze 44:23
  39. ^ Hg 2:11-14
  40. ^ Eze 22:25
  41. ^ Eze 22:13
  42. ^ Je 23:25-32; Eze 13:6
  43. ^ Is 5:7; Eze 9:9; 22:7; Am 3:10
  44. ^ Ex 23:9
  45. ^ Is 59:16; 63:5; Je 5:1
  46. ^ Eze 13:5
  47. ^ Ps 106:23; Je 15:1
  48. ^ Is 10:5; 13:5; 30:27; Eze 22:20
  49. ^ Eze 7:3, 8, 9; 9:10; 16:43; Ro 2:8, 9

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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