1 The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
2 “And you, human, will you judge? Will you judge the city of murderers? Then tell her about all her hateful acts.
3 You are to say: ‘This is what the Lord God says: You are a city that kills those who come to live there. You make yourself unclean by making idols.
4 You have become guilty of murder and have become unclean by your idols which you have made. So you have brought your time of punishment near; you have come to the end of your years. That is why I have made you a shame to the nations and why all lands laugh at you.
5 Those near and those far away laugh at you with your bad name, you city full of confusion.
6 “ ‘Jerusalem, see how each ruler of Israel in you has been trying to kill people.
7 The people in you hate their fathers and mothers. They mistreat the foreigners in you and wrong the orphans and widows in you.