5. No! It's becauseof your terrible sins.
6. To guarantee payment of a debt,you have taken clothesfrom the poor.
7. And you refused bread and waterto the hungry and thirsty,
8. although you were rich,respected, and powerful.
9. You have turned away widowsand have broken the armsof orphans.
10. That's why you were suddenlytrapped by terror,
11. blinded by darkness,and drowned in a flood.