² “Now, son of man, ^(A)will you judge, will you judge ^(B)the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations! ³ Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The city sheds ^(C)blood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself. ⁴ You have become guilty by the blood which you have ^(D)shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; ^(E)therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries. ⁵ Those near and those far from you will mock you as ^[a]infamous and full of tumult.

⁶ “Look, ^(F)the princes of Israel: each one has used his ^[b]power to shed blood in you. ⁷ In you they have ^(G)made light of father and mother; in your midst they have ^(H)oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the ^[c]fatherless and the widow. ⁸ You have despised My holy things and ^(I)profaned My Sabbaths. ⁹ In you are ^(J)men who slander to cause bloodshed; ^(K)in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness. ¹⁰ In you men ^(L)uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are ^(M)set apart during their impurity. ¹¹ One commits abomination ^(N)with his neighbor’s wife; ^(O)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father’s ^(P)daughter. ¹² In you ^(Q)they take bribes to shed blood; ^(R)you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and ^(S)have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.

¹⁰ Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul’s presence; and he drove the spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped that night.

^11 (A)Saul also sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

¹⁰ and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. ^(A)From now on you will catch men.”