Rotherham(i)
2 Thou, therefore, son of man, Wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge, the city of bloodshed; and cause her to know all her abominations?
3 Thou shalt say then, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, A city shedding blood in her own midst, That her time, might come, Therefore hath she been making manufactured gods for herself, to be defiled.
4 Because of the blood which thou hast shed, hast thou become guilty, And, with the manufactured gods which thou hast made, hast thou defiled thyself, Thus hast thou brought near thy days, And hast come unto thy years,––For this cause, have I delivered thee, As a reproach, to the nations, And as a derision, to all the lands.
5 They who are near, and they who are far off from thee, shall shew themselves derisive over thee,––O thou of impure name, abounding in confusion!
6 Lo! the, princes of Israel, every man for his own arm, have they been in thee, For the sake of shedding blood.
7 Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression, in the midst of thee,––The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:
8 My holy things, hast thou despised,––And, my sabbaths, hast thou profaned:
9 Slanders, have arisen in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,––And, unto the mountains, have they eaten in thee, Lewdness, have they practised in the midst of thee:
10 A father’s shame, hath been uncovered in thee, Her that was unclean in her removal, have they humbled in thee;
11 And, one man, with the wife of his neighbour, hath wrought abomination, And, another, hath defiled, his daughter–in–law, by shameful deed,––And, another, his own sister, daughter of his own father, hath humbled in thee:
12 Bribes, have they accepted in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,––Interest and increase, hast thou accepted, And thou hast overreached thy neighbour, by oppression, And, me, hast thou forgotten, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.
13 Lo! therefore, I have smitten my hand, At thine unjust gain which thou hast made––And over thy bloodshed, which they have caused in thy midst.
14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days when I, am dealing with thee? I, Yahweh, have spoken, and will perform.
15 Therefore will I disperse thee among the nations, And scatter thee throughout the lands,––And will cause to cease thine impurity out of thee;