7. In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
8. You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
9. In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
10. In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity.
11. One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
12. In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.
13. “Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.
14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and will do it.
15. I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you.
16. You shall defile yourself in the sight of the nations; then you shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”
17. The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18. “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silver.