¹⁷ Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O ^(A)son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit ^(B)the abominations that they commit here, that ^(C)they should fill the land with violence and ^(D)provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their^[a] nose.

⁹ Then he said to me, ^(A)“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. ^(B)The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For ^(C)they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

^6 (A)You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.

³ You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that ^(A)her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! ⁴ You have become guilty ^(B)by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought ^(C)your days near, the appointed time of^[a] your years has come. ^(D)Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.