Ezekiel 22:3-12 And tell them, thus saith the Lorde God, The citie sheddeth blood in the middest of it, that her tyme may come, and maketh idols agaynst her selfe, to defile her selfe

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ And tell them, thus saith the Lorde God, The citie sheddeth blood in the middest of it, that her tyme may come, and maketh idols agaynst her selfe, to defile her selfe ⁴ Thou hast made thy selfe giltie in the blood that thou hast shed, and defyled thee in the idols which thou hast made: thou hast caused thy dayes to drawe nye, and made the tyme of thy yeres to come: therfore wyll I make thee a reproche among the heathen, and to be a mockyng in all landes ⁵ Whether they be nye or farre from thee, they shall laugh thee to scorne, thou that hast gotten thee so foule a name, and art full of trouble ⁶ Beholde the rulers of Israel, euery one in thee [was redy] to his power to shed blood ⁷ In thee haue they dispised father and mother, in thee haue they oppressed the straunger, in thee haue they vexed the widowe and the fatherlesse ⁸ Thou hast dispised my holy thynges, and defiled my Sabbathes ⁹ Tale tellers are there in thee to shed blood, in thee are such as eate vpon the hylles, and in thee they commit abhomination ¹⁰ In thee they discouered their fathers shame, in thee they haue humbled her that was set apart for pollution ¹¹ Euery man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbours wife, and abhominably defiled his daughter in lawe, in thee hath euery man forced his owne sister, euen his fathers daughter ¹² Yea giftes haue ben receaued in thee to shed blood, thou hast taken vsurie and encrease, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, saith the Lorde God