And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

Therefore thus says lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot has fallen upon it.

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD.

Surely at the commandment of LORD this came upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine. The prey departs not.

so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

And having answered, all the people said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers,

Thou shalt

Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Those who sin, rebuke in the sight of all, so that the others may also have fear.

Her abominations

And he said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.

General references

I have made thee a prover [and] a fortress among my people, that thou may know and try their way.

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.