There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.
In these verses the prophet by a commission from Heaven sits as a judge upon the bench, and Jerusalem is made to hold up her hand as a prisoner at the bar; and, if prophets were set over other nations, much more over God's nation, Jer 1:10. This prophet is authorized to judge the bloody city, the city of bloods.
Commenting on Ezekiel 22:1-16
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood,.... Innocent blood, as the Targum; such who go from house to house, as pedlars do, with their wares or spices, as the word (a) signifies; hence the Syriac version renders it "merchants"; and carry tales and lies of innocent persons, and stir up others against them to wrath and revenge, and shed their blood; or...
men that carry tales--informers, who by misrepresentations cause innocent blood to be shed (Lev 19:16). Literally, "one who goes to and fro as a merchant."