8. You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
9. Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
10. In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
11. One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
12. In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
13. “‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.
14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
15. I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.
16. You will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.”’”
17. Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,