Ezekiel 7:21-23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²¹ I will hand it over to strangers as plunder,
    to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
    they shall profane it.^(A)
22 I will avert my face from them
    so that they may profane my treasured^[a] place;
the violent shall enter it;
    they shall profane it.^(B)
23 Make a chain!^[b]
For the land is full of bloody crimes;
    the city is full of violence.^(C)