4. You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even unto your years: therefore have I made you a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking to all countries.
5. Those that are near, and those that are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and full of tumult.
6. Behold, the princes of Israel, each one in you used his power to shed blood.
7. In you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
8. You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths.
9. In you are men that slander to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.
10. In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you have they violated her that was set apart for her impurity.
11. And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has violated 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 from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.
13. Behold, therefore I have struck my hands together at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
15. And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you in the countries, and will consume your filthiness out of you.