Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ezechiel 22:7-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

7. They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

8. Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.

9. Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee.

10. They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.

11. And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

12. They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and then hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

13. Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which thou hast exercised and at the blood that hath been shed: In the midst of thee.

14. Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail ill the days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

15. And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.

16. And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.