1. The word of the Lord came to me:
2. “Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices
3. and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols,
4. you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.
5. Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.
6. “ ‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.
7. In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.