22 ¹ Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 22 ² "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominable deeds. 22 ³ You shall say, Thus says Yahweh GOD: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 22 ⁴ You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by the idols which you have made; and you have brought your day near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. 22 ⁵ Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.

22 ⁶ "Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 22 ⁷ Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you. 22 ⁸ You have despised my holy things, and profaned my sabbaths. 22 ⁹ There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and men in you who eat upon the mountains; men commit lewdness in your midst. 22 ¹⁰ In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they humble women who are unclean in their impurity. 22 ¹¹ One commits abomination with his neighbour's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father's daughter. 22 ¹² In you men take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and increase and make gain of your neighbours by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says Yahweh GOD.

22 ¹³ "Behold, therefore, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in the midst of you. 22 ¹⁴ Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I Yahweh have spoken, and I will do it. 22 ¹⁵ I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your filthiness out of you. 22 ¹⁶ And I shall be profaned through you in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh."