You make cruelty and murder a way of life in Jerusalem.
and tell them I am saying: Jerusalem, you have murdered many of your own people and have worshipped idols. You will soon be punished!
No one is loyal to God; no one does right. Everyone is brutal and eager to deceive everyone else.
Its officials are roaring lions, its judges are wolves; in the evening they attack, by morning nothing is left.
Everyone answered, “We and our own families will take the blame for his death!”
Don't you know it is better for one person to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed?”