Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Ezekiel 22
⁵ Those near and those far from you will mock you as infamous and full of tumult.
⁶ "Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his power to shed blood in you.
⁷ In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
⁸ You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
⁹ In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
¹⁰ In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity.
¹¹ One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
¹² In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me," says the Lord God.
¹³ "Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.
¹⁴ Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and will do it.
¹⁵ I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you.