7. “They have despised father and mother within you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst. They have wronged the fatherless and the widow within you.
8. “You have despised that which is set-apart to Me, and you have profaned My Sabbaths.
9. “Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. And in you are those who eat on the mountains. They have done wickedness in your midst.
10. “In you they have uncovered the nakedness of a father. In you they have humbled women who are defiled during their uncleanness.
11. “And the one has done abomination with his neighbour’s wife. And another has wickedly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another within you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
12. “In you they have taken a bribe to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. You have cut off your neighbour by extortion. And you have forgotten Me,” declares the Master יהוה.
13. “And see, I shall smite My hand because of your greedy gain which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.
14. “Would your heart stand, your hands remain strong, in the days when I deal with you? I, יהוה, have spoken, and shall do it.
15. “And I shall scatter you among the gentiles, and shall disperse you throughout the lands, and shall consume your filthiness out of you.
16. “And you shall profane yourself before the eyes of the gentiles. And you shall know that I am יהוה.” ’ ”
17. And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
18. “Son of man, the house of Yisra’ĕl has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace – they have become the dross of silver.
19. “Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Because all of you have become dross, therefore see, I am gathering you into the midst of Yerushalayim.
20. ‘As they gather silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it, so I gather you in My displeasure and in My wrath. And I shall blow and melt you.
21. ‘And I shall gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.
22. ‘As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so are you melted in its midst. And you shall know that I, יהוה, have poured out My wrath on you.’ ”
23. And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
24. “Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of displeasure.’