How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
How is the faithful city become an harlot! "Faithful" - as a wife (Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 62:5; Hosea 2:19-20).
Harlot - (Ezekiel 16:28-35.) So the once faithful "woman" becomes "the harlot" Babylon in the New Testament (Revelation 12:1-17; Revelation 17:1-6)
Righteousness lodged in it (2 Peter 3:13 ); but now murderers - murderous oppressors, as the antithesis to righteousness requires (note, Isaiah 1:15). Blood-shedding, as the climax of sin, stands as the summary of all kinds of which manifest want of love to our fellow-man; to hate is, in the Bible view, to murder (1 John 3:15).