11. Within your walls live men who commit adultery with their neighbors’ wives, who defile their daughters-in-law, or who rape their own sisters.
12. There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere. They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign lord.
13. “But now I clap my hands in indignation over your dishonest gain and bloodshed.
14. How strong and courageous will you be in my day of reckoning? I, the lord, have spoken, and I will do what I said.
15. I will scatter you among the nations and purge you of your wickedness.
16. And when I have been dishonored among the nations because of you, you will know that I am the lord.”
17. Then this message came to me from the lord:
18. “Son of man, the people of Israel are the worthless slag that remains after silver is smelted. They are the dross that is left over—a useless mixture of copper, tin, iron, and lead.