Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art vile in [a]name and sore in affliction.

Behold, the princes of Israel everyone in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood.

In thee have they despised father and mother: in the midst of thee [b]have they oppressed the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 22:5 Whose very name all men hate.
  2. Ezekiel 22:7 He meaneth hereby that there was no kind of wickedness which was not committed in Jerusalem, and therefore the plagues of God should speedily come upon her.

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