7. They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; they violated the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated the orphan and widow.
8. You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned.
9. Slanderous men are among you to shed blood, and they, among you, eat upon the mountains; they do wickedness in the midst of you.
10. They uncover the nakedness of a father among you; they violate a woman unclean of menstruation among you.
11. And a man does a detestable thing with the wife of his neighbor, and a man defiles his daughter-in-law in wickedness, and a man sexually violates among you his sister, the daughter of his father.
12. They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain from your neighbors by extortion, and so you have forgotten me, declares the Lord Yahweh.
13. And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you have made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.
14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong at the days in which I am dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!
15. I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you.
16. And I will be profaned by you before the eyes of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”
17. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,