Ezekiel 22:2
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“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations
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“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.
Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.