5. People far and near will make fun of you. You have ruined your name. You are filled with confusion.
6. “‘Look, all the leaders in Israel are using their strength just to kill other people.
7. And the people in Jerusalem don’t respect their parents. There in the city, they abuse the foreigners. They cheat orphans and widows in that place.
8. You hate all that I consider holy. You treat my special days of rest as if they are not important.
9. In Jerusalem, people tell lies in order to kill innocent people. They go to the mountains to worship false gods and then come back to Jerusalem to eat their fellowship meals. “‘In Jerusalem, people commit many sexual sins.
10. There men commit sexual sins with their father’s wife. There the men rape women—even during their monthly time of bleeding.
11. One man commits a terrible sin against his own neighbor’s wife. Another man has sex with his daughter-in-law and makes her unclean. Another man rapes his father’s daughter—his very own sister.