² You, son of man, will you put them on trial,^[a] will you put the bloody city on trial? Then list for her all her abominations. ³ Say that this is what the Lord God says.

O city, you shed blood in your midst, and you bring on your time of judgment. You manufacture idols throughout the city, and so you defile yourself. ⁴ Because of the blood you have shed, you have become guilty, and because of the filthy idols you have made, you have become defiled. You have brought near your final days. You have arrived at the end of your years. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and subjected you to ridicule among all the countries. ⁵ Those nearby and those far away from you will ridicule you, who are notorious for impurity and full of turmoil.

⁶ Look at the rulers of Israel. Each one among you uses his power to shed blood. ⁷ In your midst, people have dishonored their fathers and mothers. They have exploited the alien in your midst. They have mistreated the fatherless children and the widows among you. ⁸ You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. ⁹ Slanderers are present among you to shed blood. In you there are people who eat on the mountains and commit obscene acts in your midst. ¹⁰ In your midst, a man uncovers the nakedness of his mother, who is reserved for his father, and men force themselves on a woman who is unclean during her period. ¹¹ In your midst, a man commits an abomination with a neighbor’s wife. Another man obscenely defiles a daughter-in-law. Another forces himself on his sister, his father’s daughter. ¹² In your midst, they take bribes to shed blood. You deduct a fee from the money you lend to people, and you demand that they repay more than you lent them. In this way you exploit your neighbor by extortion. And you have forgotten me, declares the Lord God.

¹³ Therefore, I clap my hands^[b] against the dishonest profit you have made and over the bloodshed in your midst. ¹⁴ Will your courage endure? Will your hands remain strong in the days when I deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will accomplish it. ¹⁵ I will scatter you among the nations. I will disperse you throughout the countries and remove your uncleanness from you. ¹⁶ After you have been defiled in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord.