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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Ezekiel 22
⁵ Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you of ill repute, full of turmoil.
⁶ "Behold, the rulers of Israel, each according to his power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.
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.
⁸ You have despised My holy things and profaned 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 committed acts of lewdness.
¹⁰ In you they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.
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.
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.
¹³ "Behold, then, I smite My hand at your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you.
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.
¹⁵ I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.