“Make the chain, for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of violence.”
The command comes to ‘make the chain (that which binds)'. This was addressed to their captors who would use it. They would unknowingly be doing Yahweh's will. This was probably referring to the chain used to restrain the captives as they were led off, for the next verse describes the coming of their conquerors. Because life had become violent, and men sought justice by personal revenge and murder, they could only deserve the end that is coming to them, to be enchained, to be exiled to a foreign land. They were not worthy of Jerusalem. It has become ‘a city of blood' (Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 24:6; Ezekiel 24:9).