Ezequiel 22

1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 2 "You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations. 3 You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: "A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! 4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your 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 mocking to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.

6 "‘"Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. 7 In you have they treated father and mother with contempt.*22:7 Literally, made light of father and mother. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. 8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. 9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you. 10 In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me," says the Lord Yahweh.

13 "‘"Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been shed within you. 14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it. 15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will purge your filthiness out of you. 16 You will be profaned in yourself in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh."’"

17 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 18 "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you. 21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it. 22 As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’"

23 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 24 "Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed nor rained on in the day of indignation.’ 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it. 26 Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. 28 Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

30 "I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads," says the Lord Yahweh.

Te Pā Whakaheke Toto

1 I puta mai anō te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 2 "E whakawā rānei koe, e te tama a te tangata, e whakawā rānei koe i te pā whakaheke toto? Nā, whakakitea anō āna mea whakarihariha katoa ki a ia. 3 Ā, mea atu koe: Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: He pā e whakaheke ana i te toto i waenganui ōna, he mea e tae mai ai te wā mōna, e hanga whakapakoko ana hei hē mōna, hei whakapoke i a ia! 4 Kua hē koe i ōu toto i whakahekea e koe, kua poke i āu whakapakoko i hangā e koe; ā, kua meinga e koe ōu rā kia tata, kua tae anō koe ki ōu tau. Nā reira koe i meinga ai e ahau hei tāwainga mā ngā tauiwi, hei taunutanga mā ngā whenua katoa. 5 Ko te hunga e tata ana, ko te hunga hoki e matara atu ana i a koe, ka taunu ki a koe, e te tangata ingoa poke, kikī tonu i te tutū.

6 "Nanā, ngā rangatira o Īharaira, puta ana ngā uaua o tētahi, o tētahi i roto i a koe ki te whakaheke toto. 7 E whakahāwea ana rātou ki te pāpā, ki te whaea, i roto i a koe; he mahi whakatupu kino tā rātou ki te tautangata i roto i a koe. E tūkinotia ana e rātou te pani me te pouaru i roto i a koe. 8 Ko āku mea tapu whakahāweatia iho e koe, ko āku hāpati whakanoatia ana e koe. 9 I roto i a koe ngā tāngata ngautuarā, he mea kia whakahekea ai he toto; i roto i a koe te kai ki runga ki ngā maunga; i roto i a koe te mahi pūremu. 10 I roto i a koe te hura i tō te pāpā e takoto tahanga ai; i roto i a koe te whakaiti i te wahine poke i a ia e noho wehe ana. 11 He mahi whakarihariha anō tā tētahi ki te wahine a tōna hoa; ko tā tētahi whakapokea iho, pūremutia iho tāna hunaonga; ko tā tētahi i roto i a koe, he whakaiti i tōna tuahine, i te tamāhine a tōna pāpā. 12 I roto i a koe i tango rātou i te utu whakapati e whakahekea ai he toto; kua tango koe i te moni whakatupu, i ngā hua anō hoki, kua haoa mai anō e koe ngā taonga a ōu hoa, he mea tūkino, kua wareware anō koe ki ahau, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā.

13 "Nanā, kua pākia e ahau tōku ringa ki tāu hao taonga i hao ai koe, ki ōu toto anō kua heke nā i waenganui i a koe. 14 E ū rānei tōu ngākau, e pakari rānei ōu ringa, i ngā rā e mahi ai ahau ki a koe? Nāku, nā Ihowā te kupu, māku anō e mahi. 15 Ka whakamararatia atu anō koe e ahau ki roto ki ngā tauiwi, ka tītaria hoki koe ki ngā whenua, ā, ka poto i ahau tōu poke i roto i a koe. 16 Ka whakanoatia anō hoki koe e koe anō i te tirohanga a ngā iwi, ā, ka mōhio koe ko Ihowā ahau."

17 I puta mai anō te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 18 "E te tama a te tangata, ki ahau, kua rite te whare o Īharaira ki te para; he parāhi rātou katoa, he tine, he rino, he matā i waenga oumu; he para hiriwa rātou katoa. 19 Nā reira tēnei kupu a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Nā, he para nei koutou katoa, nā, tēnei ahau te kohikohi nei i a koutou ki waenganui o Hiruhārama. 20 Ka rite ki te kohikohinga o te hiriwa, o te parāhi, o te rino, o te matā, o te tine ki waenganui o te oumu, pūhia tonutia atu te ahi ki runga hei whakarewa; ka pēnā anō tāku kohikohi i a koe i runga i tōku riri, i tōku weriweri, ka waiho anō koutou e ahau ki reira, ka whakarewaina anō koutou. 21 Inā, ka whakaminea koutou e ahau, ka pupuhi atu anō ahau ki a koutou i runga i te ahi, arā i tōku riri, ā, ka rewa koutou i waenganui. 22 Ka rite ki te whakarewanga o te hiriwa i roto i te oumu; ka pēnā anō tō koutou whakarewanga i waenganui o taua oumu, ā, ka mōhio koutou kua oti tōku weriweri te riringi e ahau, e Ihowā, ki runga ki a koutou."

23 I puta mai anō te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 24 "E te tama a te tangata, mea atu ki a ia: ‘He whenua koe kīhai i purea, kīhai anō i whai ua i te rā o te riri.’ 25 E whakatakotoria ana he hē e āna poropiti i waenganui i a ia, koia anō kei te raiona māngai nui e haehae ana i te tūpāpaku; kua pau ngā wairua i a rātou; kua riro i a rātou ngā taonga me ngā mea utu nui; kua tini i a rātou ōna pouaru i roto i a ia. 26 Kua tūkinotia e āna tohunga tāku ture, whakanoatia ana e rātou āku mea tapu; kīhai i wehea e rātou te tapu i te noa, kīhai anō i whakakitea e rātou te wehenga o te poke, o te mā; ko ō rātou kanohi hunā ake e rātou ki āku hāpati, ā, whakapokea ana ahau i roto i a rātou. 27 Ko ōna rangatira i roto i a ia, rite tonu ki te wuruhi e haehae ana i te tūpāpaku; he whakaheke toto, he whakangaro wairua, kia riro mai ai he taonga whānako. 28 I pania anō e āna poropiti he mea mō rātou ki te paru kīhai i kōnatunatua; he moemoeā horihori a rātou; he teka ngā kōrero a aua tohunga tūāhu ki a rātou, i a rātou ka mea nei, ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā,’ i te mea kīhai a Ihowā i kōrero. 29 Ko tā te iwi o te whenua, he whakatupu kino, he pāhua; āe rā, e tūkinotia ana e rātou te ware me te rawakore; e whakatupuria kinotia ana e rātou te tautangata i te mea kāhore nei he take.

30 "I te rapu anō ahau i te tangata i roto i a rātou hei hanga i te taiepa, hei tū ki te wāhi pakaru ki tōku aroaro mō te whenua, hei mea kei whakangaromia e ahau; heoi kīhai i kitea. 31 Nā reira i ringihia ai e ahau tōku riri ki runga ki a rātou; kua whakapotoa rātou e ahau ki te ahi o tōku riri; kua hoatu e ahau te utu o tō rātou ara ki runga ki ō rātou māhunga, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā."