Power turned against the vulnerable

The City and the Empty Breach · Ezekiel 22

Story guide: Concrete objects reveal bribery, extortion, neglected holiness, and Sabbath profanation without depicting sexual abuse or violence.

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6Look, the princes of Israel in you, each according to his power, were in you to shed blood.

7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in your midst they have oppressed the sojourner; in you they have defrauded the fatherless and the widow.

8You have despised my holy things, and you have profaned my Sabbaths.

9Men of slander were in you in order to shed blood; and on the mountains they ate; they committed lewdness in your midst.

10In you they uncover a father's nakedness; in you they violate a woman in her menstrual impurity.

11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with lewdness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter, within you.

12In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profit, and you have extorted your neighbors by oppression, and you have forgotten me, declares the Lord GOD.

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