And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands.

For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.

And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;

Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

Thou shalt

Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,

Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.

Her abominations

And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here.

General references

I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.

You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.