1. In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of Israel’s elders came to inquire of the Lord. As they were sitting with me,
2. the Lord’s word came to me:
3. Human one, speak to Israel’s elders and say to them, The Lord God proclaims: Have you come to petition me? As surely as I live, I reject your petitions. This is what the Lord God says!
4. Will you judge them, human one, will you judge them? Then expose to them the detestable practices of their ancestors.