| 1 | And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, |
| 2 | And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, cause her to know all her abominations, |
| 3 | and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in her midst, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. |
| 4 | Thou art become guilty by thy blood which thou hast shed, and hast defiled thyself with thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking unto all countries. |
| 5 | Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, who art infamous [and] full of tumult. |
| 6 | Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power. |
| 7 | In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. |
| 8 | Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. |
| 9 | In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness; |
| 10 | in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation. |
| 11 | And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. |
| 12 | In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah. |
| 13 | And behold, I have smitten mine hand at thine overreaching which thou hast done, and at thy bloodshed which hath been in the midst of thee. |
| 14 | Shall thy heart endure, shall thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I Jehovah have spoken, and will do [it]. |
| 15 | And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. |
| 16 | And thou shalt be polluted through thyself in the sight of the nations, and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah. |
| 17 | And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, |
| 18 | Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: they are all copper, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. |
| 19 | Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. |
| 20 | [As] they gather silver, and copper, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it, so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will lay you on and melt you. |
| 21 | Yea, I will collect you, and blow upon you the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. |
| 22 | As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I Jehovah have poured out my fury upon you. |
| 23 | And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, |
| 24 | Son of man, say unto her, Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. |
| 25 | There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they devour souls; they take away treasure and precious things; they increase her widows in the midst of her; |
| 26 | her priests do violence to my law, and profane my holy things: they put no difference between the holy and profane, neither do they make known [the difference] between the unclean and the clean, and they hide their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. |
| 27 | Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. |
| 28 | And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah! and Jehovah hath not spoken. |
| 29 | The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully. |
| 30 | And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the fence, and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. |
| 31 | And I will pour out mine indignation upon them; I will consume them in the fire of my wrath: their own way will I recompense upon their head, saith the Lord Jehovah. |
