4. you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughing-stock to all the countries.
5. Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.
6. ‘ “See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.
7. In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and ill-treated the fatherless and the widow.
8. You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.
9. In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.
10. In you are those who dishonour their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.