Evil pours from your city like water from a spring. Sounds of violent crimes echo within your walls; victims are everywhere, wounded and dying.
Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.
From your head to your toes there isn't a healthy spot. Bruises, cuts, and open sores go without care or oil to ease the pain.
The wicked are a restless sea tossing up mud.
but you can't make clothes with those webs or hide behind them. You're sinful and brutal.
You have let me announce only destruction and death. Your message has brought me nothing but insults and trouble.
The LORD said: My people, you are wounded and near death.
You are accused of a crime with no one to defend you, and you are covered with sores that no medicine can cure.
If medicine and doctors may be found in Gilead, why aren't my people healed?
You wicked Ammonites see false visions and believe untrue messages. But your day of punishment is coming soon, and my sword will slaughter you!
The people of Jerusalem murdered innocent people in the city and didn't even try to cover-up the blood that flowed out on the hard ground.
The LORD God said: You leaders of Israel have robbed and cheated my people long enough! I want you to stop sinning and start doing what is right and fair. You must never again force my people off their own land. I, the LORD, have spoken.
and violent criminals run free. None of you will survive the disaster, and everything you own and value will be shattered.
Your whole country is in confusion! Murder and violence are everywhere in Israel,
Too bad for that disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city!