Ezekiel 22:2
22:2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou {a} judge, wilt thou judge
     the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her
     abominations.

     (a) Are you ready to execute your charge, which I commit to
         you against Jerusalem that murders the prophets and
         them that are godly?

Ezekiel 22:3
22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth
     blood in the midst of it, that her {b} time may come, and
     maketh idols against {c} herself to defile herself.

     (b) That is, the time of her destruction.
     (c) To her own undoing.

Ezekiel 22:5
22:5 [Those that are] near, and [those that are] far from thee,
     shall mock thee, [who art] {d} infamous [and] much
     troubled.

     (d) Whose very name all men hate.

Ezekiel 22:7
22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the
     midst of thee {e} have they dealt by oppression with the
     stranger: in thee have they oppressed the fatherless and
     the widow.

     (e) He means by this that there was no kind of wickedness
         which was not committed in Jerusalem and therefore the
         plagues of God would speedily come on her.

Ezekiel 22:13
22:13 Behold, therefore I have {f} smitten my hand at thy
      dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood
      which hath been in the midst of thee.

      (f) In token of my wrath and vengeance.

Ezekiel 22:14
22:14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands {g} be strong, in
      the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have
      spoken [it], and will do [it].

      (g) That is, able to defend yourself.

Ezekiel 22:15
22:15 And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse
      thee in the countries, and will consume thy {h} filthiness
      out of thee.

      (h) I will thus take away the occasion of your wickedness.

Ezekiel 22:16
22:16 And thou shalt take thy {i} inheritance in thyself in the
      sight of the nations, and thou shalt know that I [am] the
      LORD.

      (i) You will be no more the inheritance of the Lord, but
          forsaken.

Ezekiel 22:18
22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become {k} dross:
      all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the
      midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.

      (k) Which before was most precious.

Ezekiel 22:20
22:20 [As] they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead,
      and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire
      upon it, to melt [it]; so will I gather [you] in my anger
      and in my fury, and I will leave [you there], {l} and melt
      you.

      (l) Meaning by this that the godly would be tried and the
          wicked destroyed.

Ezekiel 22:24
22:24 Son of man, say to her, Thou [art] the land that is not
      cleansed, {m} nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

      (m) You are like a barren land which the Lord plagues with
          drought.

Ezekiel 22:25
22:25 [There is] a conspiracy {n} of her prophets in the midst
      of her, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have
      devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious
      things; they have made her many widows in the midst of
      her.

      (n) The false prophets have conspired together to make
          their doctrine more probable.

Ezekiel 22:26
22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my
      holy things: they have put no difference between the holy
      and profane, neither have they shown [difference] between
      the unclean and the clean, and have hid their {o} eyes
      from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

      (o) They have neglected my service.

Ezekiel 22:28
22:28 And her {p} prophets have daubed them with untempered
      [mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies to them,
      saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not
      spoken.

      (p) They who would have reproved them, flattered them in
          their vices and covered their doings with lies.
          \\See Geneva "Ezekiel 13:10"\\

Ezekiel 22:30
22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should {q} make up
      the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land,
      that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

      (q) Who would show himself zealous in my cause by
          resisting vice, Isaiah 59:16 also pray to me to
          withhold my plagues, Psalm 106:23.