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The text says the city’s punishment came because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests. It specifically mentions that they shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous (Lamentations 4:13).
13[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.