who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols,
The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.
Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.
All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”