who build up Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with injustice.
Say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘City that spills blood in her midst and makes idols for herself that defile—her time has come!
The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the night, leaving nothing but bones for morning.
All the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
You don’t take into account that it is better for you that one man die for the people rather than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”