Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.(A)

“‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.(B) In you they have treated father and mother with contempt;(C) in you they have oppressed the foreigner(D) and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.(E)

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Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

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