And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
‘You are to be fuel for the fire, your blood to be in the midst of the land. You are not to be remembered, for I יהוה have spoken.’ ”
“And now, son of man, judge, judge the city of blood! And you shall show her all her abominations!
Covetings are in its midst; Oppression and deceit do not vanish from its streets.
Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to peoples.
How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.
‘Why do you cry about your breach? Your pain is incurable. Because of your many crookednesses, because your sins have increased, I have done this to you.
