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Ezekiel 22:1-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2. "And you, son of man, should you not judge, should you not judge the city of blood?

3. And you shall reveal to her all her abominations. And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: This is the city which sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and which has made idols against herself, so that she may be defiled.

4. You have offended by your blood, which you shed from yourself. And you have been defiled by your idols which you yourself made. And you have caused your days to approach, and you have brought on the time of your years. Because of this, I have made you a disgrace to the Gentiles, and a derision to all the lands.

5. Those that are near and those that are far from you will triumph over you. You are filthy, infamous, great in destruction.

6. Behold, the leaders of Israel have each used his arm to shed blood within you.

7. They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.

8. You have spurned my sanctuaries, and you have defiled my Sabbaths.

9. Maligning men were within you, in order to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains within you. They have worked wickedness in your midst.

10. They have uncovered the nakedness of their father within you. They have debased the uncleanness of the menstruous woman within you.

11. And each one has committed abomination with the wife of his neighbor. And the father-in-law has heinously defiled his daughter-in-law. The brother has oppressed his sister, the daughter of his father, within you.

12. They have accepted bribes among you to shed blood. You have received usury and superabundance, and in avarice you have oppressed your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

13. Behold, I have clapped my hands over your avarice, which you have worked, and over the blood that has been shed in your midst.

14. How can your heart endure, or your hands prevail, in the days that I will bring upon you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will act.

15. And I will disperse you among the nations, and I will scatter you among the lands, and I will cause your uncleanness to fade away from you.

16. And I will possess you in the sight of the Gentiles. And you shall know that I am the Lord."

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