7. Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
8. You despise My holy things and profane My Sabbaths.
9. There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit immoral acts within you.
10. Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.
11. One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
12. People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
13. “Now look, I clap My hands together against the dishonest profit you have made and against the blood shed among you.
14. Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the days when I deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will act.
15. I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you among the countries; I will purge your uncleanness.
16. You will be profaned in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
17. The word of the Lord came to me:
18. “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
19. Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because all of you have become dross, I am about to gather you into Jerusalem.
20. Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to blow fire on them and melt them, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, put you inside, and melt you.