“Behold therefore I have smitten my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.”
What has happened in Jerusalem has made God ‘smite his hand', in anger and determination to do something. Two sins stand out, those of dishonest business dealings and especially of treating the poor and defenceless dishonestly, and that of murder by various means. both violent and judicial.