You build Zion on bloodshed and Jerusalem on wickedness.
Tell it, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: ⌞Jerusalem,⌟ you are the city that murders people who live in you. Your time has come. You dishonor yourself with disgusting idols.
Faithful people are gone from the earth, and no one is decent. All people lie in ambush to commit murder. They trap each other with nets.
Its officials are ⌞like⌟ roaring lions. Its judges are ⌞like⌟ wolves in the evening. They leave nothing to gnaw on for the morning.
All the people answered, “The responsibility for killing him will rest on us and our children.”
You haven’t even considered this: It is better for one man to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”
