23 Forge the chain,(A)
for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,
and the city is filled with violence.(B)

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“As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.(A) You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood(B) within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled! You are guilty of the blood you have shed,(C) 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. Those who are near and those far away from you will mock you, you infamous one full of turmoil.

“‘Look, every prince of Israel(D) within you has used his strength to shed blood.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:4 judgment supplied for clarity
  2. 22:4 punishment supplied for clarity

There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood.(A) People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines;[a] they commit depraved acts within you.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:9 Lit the mountains

12 People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.(A) You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors.(B) You have forgotten me.(C) This is the declaration of the Lord God.

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27 “Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

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