2. Now you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Indeed, you shall show her all her abominations.
3. Then say, Thus says the Lord God: The city sheds blood in her midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.
4. You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made. And you have caused your day to draw near and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all countries.
5. Those who are near and those who are far from you shall mock you, you of infamy and much turmoil.
6. The princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
7. In you they have treated father and mother lightly. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.
8. You have despised My holy things and have profaned My Sabbaths.
9. In you are men who carry slanders to shed blood. And in you they eat at the mountain shrines. In your midst they commit lewdness.
10. In you they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.
11. One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
12. In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.
13. Therefore I have struck My hand toward your dishonest gain which you have made, and toward your blood which has been in your midst.
14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken and will do it.
15. I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you in the countries and consume your filthiness out of you.
16. You shall profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.