{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/ezekiel/22","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T18:58:41.317Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Ezekiel","bookSlug":"ezekiel","chapter":22,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":21,"nextChapter":23,"totalChapters":48,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yes, you shall show her all her abominations."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Then say you, Thus said the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in the middle of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"You are become guilty in your blood that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Those that be near, and those that be far from you, shall mock you, which are infamous and much vexed."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed blood."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the widow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the middle of you they commit lewdness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"In you have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in you have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And 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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the middle of you."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will consume your filthiness out of you."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And you shall take your inheritance in yourself in the sight of the heathen, and you shall know that I am the LORD."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you in the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the middle therof."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the middle thereof; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury on you."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Son of man, say to her, You are the land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the middle thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the middle thereof."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Her princes in the middle thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus said the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed on their heads, said the Lord GOD."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ezekiel 22 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Ezekiel 22](https://primebible.com/akjv/ezekiel/22)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/ezekiel/22 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}