They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink [it].

And you, son of man, will you judge the bloody city? Yea, declare to her all her iniquities.

And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself;

Therefore thus says the Lord: O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.

that My wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken; I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.

Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.

[ 3:1A] Alas the glorious and ransomed city.

Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.

The lion seized enough prey for his cubs, and strangled for his [young] lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling place with spoil.

Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.

For what did He give Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God [do it] against whom they sinned? [And] they would not walk in His ways, nor hearken to His law.

Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.