7. People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.
8. You have despised my holy things and dishonored the day to worship me.
9. Some of your people slander. They want to kill people. People who live in you eat food sacrificed to idols at the worship sites on the hills, and they sin sexually.
10. Men have sex with their father’s wives. They have sex with women when the women are having their periods and are unclean.
11. Men do disgusting things with their neighbors’ wives. Some men sexually dishonor their daughters-in-law. Other men who live in you have sex with their sisters, their father’s daughters.
12. Other people take bribes to murder people. You collect interest and make excessive profits. You make profits by mistreating your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Almighty Lord.
13. “‘I will use my power against you because of the excessive profits you have made and the murders you have committed.
14. Will you still be brave? Will you remain strong when I deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.
15. I will scatter you among the nations and force you into other countries. I will put an end to your uncleanness.
16. You will be dishonored in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ ”
17. Then the Lord spoke his word to me. He said,