How much evil do you think I can tolerate? That may have been a question of the LORD. Ezekiel 22 is a laundry list of their incessant and incestuous evil:

• Shedding of blood
• Idolatry
• Every prince within you has shed blood
• Father and mother are treated with contempt
• Foreigners are unlawfully exploited
• Fatherless and widow are oppressed in you
• You despise My holy things
• You profane my Sabbath
• You have men who slander to get others killed
• Eat at the mountain shrines
• Commit immoral acts
• You have sex with your mother-in-law
• You have sexual relations during a woman’s menstruation
• Adultery
• Sexual relations with daughters-in-law
• Sexual relations with your sister
• Accepting bribes to shed blood
• Take interest and profit on a loan
• Brutally extort your neighbor
• You make dishonest profid
• Your prophets seize wealth and valuables
• Your priests do violence to My instruction and profane My hole things
• They make no distinction between the holy and the common
• They make no distinction between clean and unclean
• They shed blood and destroy lives for money
• Your prophets make up false visions that the Lord has not spoken
• The people practice extortion
• They commit robbery
• They oppress the poor and needy

God says in every way His judgment is warranted.

“I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap beffore Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one” (v. 30).

“Therefore I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. Those who are near and those far away from you will mock you, you infamous one full of turmoil” (v. 4-5).

Do we do no less?