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34 You have blood on your hands!
    It is the blood of poor, innocent people.
You did not catch them breaking into your house.
    You killed them for no reason!
35 But still, you say, ‘I am innocent.
    God is not angry with me.’
So I will also judge you guilty of lying, because you say,
    ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
36 You go from one place to another looking for help,
    always changing your mind.
But Egypt will also disappoint you,
    just as Assyria did.

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34 On your clothes is found
    the lifeblood(A) of the innocent poor,
    though you did not catch them breaking in.(B)
Yet in spite of all this
35     you say, ‘I am innocent;(C)
    he is not angry with me.’
But I will pass judgment(D) on you
    because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’(E)
36 Why do you go about so much,
    changing(F) your ways?
You will be disappointed by Egypt(G)
    as you were by Assyria.

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