Render it: Behold the princes of Israel, each according to his might (literally “arm”) have been in you in order to shed blood. They looke…

Were in you to their power. —The tense is the same with that of the verbs in Ezekiel 22:7, and both should be translated alike; th…

Behold, the princes of Israel
Those that belonged to the royal family, or the nobles of the land, or the members of …

The prophet is to judge the bloody city, the city of bloods. Jerusalem is so called because of her crimes.

The sins with which Jerusalem stan…