Jerusalem, the Bloody City, Is Judged

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The word of ADONAI came to me:

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"Now, human being, are you prepared to judge? Are you prepared to judge the city drenched in blood? Then make her realize how disgusting all her practices are!

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Say that Adonai ELOHIM says, 'City that sheds blood within yourself, thus speeding your own doom, and that makes idols for yourself that defile you:

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you are guilty because of the blood you have shed, you are defiled by your idols that you have made. You have shortened your days, you have completed your years; therefore I have made you an object of scorn for the nations and a laughingstock for every country.

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Those close by and those far off will taunt you, you who have such a defiled reputation and such great disorder.

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"'The leaders of Isra'el in you all use their power in order to shed blood.

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In you, they make light of fathers and mothers, they oppress foreigners, they wrong orphans and widows.

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You treat my holy things with contempt, you profane my shabbats.

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In you, people gossip to the point of inciting bloodshed; in you are those who go to eat on the mountains; in you, they commit lewd acts;

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in you, they commit incest; in you, they force themselves on women during their menstrual impurity.

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In you, one commits an abomination with his neighbor's wife; another commits some lewd act defiling his daughter-in-law; still another humbles his sister, his own father's daughter.

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In you, people take bribes to shed blood; you demand and accept interest on loans; in greed you make profits off your neighbors by extorting them; and you have forgotten me,' says Adonai ELOHIM.

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"'Therefore, I am clapping my hands together because of your ill-gotten gains and the blood shed in you.

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Can your courage last, can your strength continue during the days when I deal with you? I, ADONAI, have spoken it; and I will do it.

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I will scatter you among the Goyim and disperse you throughout the countries; thus I will remove your defilement from you,

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and you will cause yourselves to be profaned in full view of the Goyim. Then you will know that I am ADONAI.'"

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