1. The Lord spoke his word to me. He said:
2. “And you, human being, will you judge? Will you judge the city of murderers? Then tell her about all her hated acts.
3. You will say: ‘This is what the Lord God says: You are a city that kills those who come to live there. You make yourself unclean by making idols.
4. You have become guilty of murder. And you have become unclean by your idols which you have made. So you have brought your time of punishment near. You have come to the end of your years. So I have made you a thing of shame to the nations. All lands will laugh at you.
5. Those near and those far away will laugh at you. You will have a bad name. You will be full of confusion.
6. “‘Jerusalem, see how each ruler of Israel in you has been trying to kill people.
7. The people in you hate their fathers and mothers. They mistreat the foreigners in you. They wrong the orphans and widows in you.
8. You hate my holy things. You dishonor my Sabbaths.
9. The men in you tell lies to cause the death of others. The people in you eat food offered to idols at the mountain places of worship. They do sexual sins in you.