Ezekiel 22:1-5

Who do we think we are? Do we honestly believe that we can tear down others to build up ourselves and have God approve of our endeavors? God will not be mocked and what we sow we will reap. If we sow hatred we will get hated in return; if we make money our god we will reap anarchy and poverty. Wake up and take stock of the things that truly matter to the Lord. Peace, love and mercy are His character traits and man has a limited time to learn his lessons here on earth.


These verses focus on the sins of Jerusalem, principally bloodshed (social sin) as a result of idolatry (spiritual sin). A problem in the vertical relationship with God inevitably leads to some degree of injustice and injury in horizontal, human affairs. The city was ripe for judgment. When such hypocrisy is exposed and punishment is executed before the world, God’s people become lasting objects of ridicule.

Ezekiel 22:1-5

22 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations! 3 Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The city sheds blood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself. 4 You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries. 5 Those near and those far from you will mock you as infamous and full of tumult.