Ezekiel 22 – NIV & CCB

New International Version

Ezekiel 22:1-31

Judgment on Jerusalem’s Sins

1The word of the Lord came to me:

2“Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices 3and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, 4you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries. 5Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.

6“ ‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood. 7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow. 8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths. 9In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts. 10In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean. 11In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter. 12In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.

13“ ‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst. 14Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. 15I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness. 16When you have been defiled22:16 Or When I have allotted you your inheritance in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

17Then the word of the Lord came to me: 18“Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver. 19Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem. 20As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you. 21I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. 22As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”

23Again the word of the Lord came to me: 24“Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.’ 25There is a conspiracy of her princes22:25 Septuagint; Hebrew prophets within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. 26Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. 28Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken. 29The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

30“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. 31So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Chinese Contemporary Bible 2022 (Simplified)

以西结书 22:1-31

耶路撒冷的罪恶

1耶和华对我说: 2“人子啊,你要审判这杀人流血的城吗?你要审判她?那就使她知道自己一切可憎的行为。 3你要向她宣告主耶和华的话,说,‘唉,你这杀人流血、制造偶像玷污自己的城啊,你的末日到了。 4你既犯罪杀人,制造偶像玷污自己,使你灭亡的日子近了,你的大限到了,我要使你成为列国列邦侮辱和讥讽的对象。 5你这声名狼藉、混乱不堪的城将要受到远近各国的耻笑。

6“‘看啊,在你城中的以色列首领各逞权势,杀人流血。 7他们轻慢父母,压迫寄居者,欺负孤儿寡妇。 8你藐视我的圣物,亵渎我的安息日。 9在你这城中,有人好诽谤、杀人流血,有人在山上吃祭物,有人淫乱, 10有人与继母通奸,羞辱父亲,有人奸污经期不洁的妇女, 11有人与邻居的妻子干出可憎之事,有人玷污自己的儿媳妇,有人奸污自己的同父姊妹。 12在你这城中,他们受贿杀人,放债取利,压榨邻居,早把我忘了。这是主耶和华说的。

13“‘我见你谋财害命,就击掌叹息。 14在我惩罚你的日子,你还有勇气和力量吗?我耶和华言出必行, 15我要把你驱散到列国,分散到列邦,我要除掉你的污秽。 16你必在列国面前受凌辱,你便知道我是耶和华。’”

17耶和华对我说: 18“人子啊,在我看来,以色列人已经变成了渣滓。他们是炉中的铜、锡、铁、铅,都是银渣滓。 19所以主耶和华说,‘你们既都是渣滓,我要把你们聚集在耶路撒冷城。 20我要在义愤和烈怒中把你们聚集在城里熔化,就像人把银、铜、铁、铅、锡聚在炉中,吹旺炉火熔化一样。 21我要聚集你们,把我的怒火倒在你们身上,你们必在城中熔化。 22你们要在城中熔化,就像银在炼炉中熔化。你们就知道我耶和华已将我的烈怒倾倒在你们身上。’”

23耶和华对我说: 24“人子啊,你要对以色列说,‘在我发怒的日子,将没有雨水滋润你这不洁之地。’ 25你的首领图谋恶事,好像咆哮着撕碎猎物的狮子,他们草菅人命,抢夺财宝,使多人变成寡妇。 26你的祭司强解我的律法,亵渎我的圣物。他们圣俗不分,也不教导人分辨洁净的和不洁净的。他们藐视我的安息日,以致我在他们当中被亵渎。 27你的首领好像撕碎猎物的豺狼,杀人流血,谋取不义之财。 28你的先知粉饰他们的罪恶,对他们说虚假的异象和谎话连篇的占卜,谎称‘耶和华说’,其实耶和华没有说。 29你的居民强取豪夺,欺压贫困的,虐待寄居的,无法无天。 30我想在他们中间寻找一位重修城墙的人,站在我面前为这地方堵住缺口,免得我毁灭这里。可是,我一个也找不到。 31因此,我要向他们倾倒我的烈怒,用怒火灭尽他们,照他们的所作所为报应他们。这是主耶和华说的。”