^{2 Ref} You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.

^{3 Ref} You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

^{4 Ref} You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

^{5 Ref} Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.

^{6 Ref} Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

^{7 Ref} In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

^{8 Ref} You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

^{9 Ref} Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

^{10 Ref} In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

^{11 Ref} 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 Ref} In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

^{13 Ref} Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.