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.