³ You are to say: This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood^(A) within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled! ⁴ You are guilty of the blood you have shed,^(B) and you are defiled from the idols you have made. You have brought your judgment days near and have come to your years of punishment. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

¹⁷ Then the Babylonians came to her,^(A) to the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

²⁵ A priest may not come near a dead person so that he becomes defiled.^(A) However, he may defile himself for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister.

¹³ Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?”^(A)

The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”