³ You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood^(A) within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled! ⁴ You are guilty of the blood you have shed,^(B) and you are defiled from the idols you have made. You have brought your judgment^[a] days near and have come to your years of punishment.^[b] Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. ⁵ Those who are near and those far away from you will mock you, you infamous one full of turmoil.

⁶ “‘Look, every prince of Israel^(C) within you has used his strength to shed blood. ⁷ Father and mother are treated with contempt,^(D) and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.^{(E) 8} You despise my holy things and profane my Sabbaths.^{(F) 9} There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood.^(G) People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines;^[c] they commit depraved acts within you. ¹⁰ Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.^{(H) 11} One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife;^(I) another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.^{(J) 12} People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.^(K) You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors.^(L) You have forgotten me.^(M) This is the declaration of the Lord God.

²⁵ The conspiracy of her prophets^(A) within her is^[a] like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her. ²⁶ Her priests do violence to my instruction and profane my holy things.^(B) They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they do not explain the difference between the clean and the unclean.^(C) They close their eyes to my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

²⁷ “Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly. ²⁸ Her prophets plaster for them with whitewash by seeing false visions and lying divinations,^(D) saying, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery.^(E) They have oppressed the poor and needy and unlawfully exploited the resident alien. ³⁰ I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall^(F) and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it,^(G) but I found no one.