8. You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned.
9. Slanderous men are among you to shed blood, and they, among you, eat upon the mountains; they do wickedness in the midst of you.
10. They uncover the nakedness of a father among you; they violate a woman unclean of menstruation among you.
11. And a man does a detestable thing with the wife of his neighbor, and a man defiles his daughter-in-law in wickedness, and a man sexually violates among you his sister, the daughter of his father.
12. They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain from your neighbors by extortion, and so you have forgotten me, declares the Lord Yahweh.
13. And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you have made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.
14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong at the days in which I am dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!
15. I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you.
16. And I will be profaned by you before the eyes of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”
17. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
18. “Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them are as bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, even as silver dross, silver dross they became!
19. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because all of you have become as silver dross, therefore look! I am gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem,
20. like the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin to the middle of a furnace to blow fire on it for melting. Thus I will gather in my anger and in my rage, and I will deposit you, and I will melt you.
21. And I will gather you, and I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and so I will melt you in the midst of her.
22. Thus you will be melted like the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have poured out my rage on you.’ ”
23. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,