Ezekiel 22:6-9

God will not always tolerate mans injustice to man. There will come an end to man’s idolatry and it will usher in the reign of Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords. He will lift up the humble and bring down the hypocrites, exposing evil and replacing it with truth.

Jerusalem’s princes had shed the blood of innocent people. These evil leaders had been: (1) taking advantage of parents and the weak (2) rejecting God and His covenant, leading to ungodliness and inhumanity (3) murdering the innocent by slandering them (4) preferring idolatrous religion and its immoral rituals (5) loving money and using it to get ahead of fellow citizens.

Ezekiel 22:6-9

6 “Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his power to shed blood in you. 7 In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow. 8 You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths. 9 In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.