7. They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.
8. You have spurned my sanctuaries, and you have defiled my Sabbaths.
9. Maligning men were within you, in order to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains within you. They have worked wickedness in your midst.
10. They have uncovered the nakedness of their father within you. They have debased the uncleanness of the menstruous woman within you.
11. And each one has committed abomination with the wife of his neighbor. And the father-in-law has heinously defiled his daughter-in-law. The brother has oppressed his sister, the daughter of his father, within you.
12. They have accepted bribes among you to shed blood. You have received usury and superabundance, and in avarice you have oppressed your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.
13. Behold, I have clapped my hands over your avarice, which you have worked, and over the blood that has been shed in your midst.
14. How can your heart endure, or your hands prevail, in the days that I will bring upon you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will act.
15. And I will disperse you among the nations, and I will scatter you among the lands, and I will cause your uncleanness to fade away from you.
16. And I will possess you in the sight of the Gentiles. And you shall know that I am the Lord."
17. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18. "Son of man, the house of Israel has become like dross to me. All these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace; they have become like the dross of silver.