9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption,11 for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’12
tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”
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sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.