²³ ‘^(A)Make the chain, for the land is full of ^(B)judgments that promote bloodshed, and the city is ^(C)full of violence.

² “Now as for you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the city of blood? Then you shall cause her to know all her abominations. ³ And you shall say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “A city ^(A)shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come; and she makes idols against herself for defilement! ⁴ You have become ^(B)guilty by ^[a]the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your ^[b]day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a ^(C)reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands. ⁵ Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you of unclean name, full of ^(D)turmoil.

⁶ “Behold, the ^(E)princes of Israel, each according to his ^[c]power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.

⁹ Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have ^(A)done acts of lewdness.

¹² In you they have ^(A)taken bribes for the purpose of shedding blood; you have taken ^(B)interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by ^(C)oppression, and you have ^(D)forgotten Me,” declares Lord Yahweh.

²⁷ Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and ^(A)destroying lives in order to get ^(B)greedy gain.