²³And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^v ²⁴“Son of man,^w say to her, ‘You are a land not cleansed; it is not rained upon in the day of indignation.’ ²⁵The conspiracy of its prophets in the midst of her is like a roaring lion that is tearing prey. They devour people, and they take wealth and treasure; they make its widows numerous in the midst of her. ²⁶Its priests treat my law violently, and they profane my holy objects; they do not distinguish between a holy object and what is unholy, or between the clean and the unclean. They do not teach the difference, and they hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned in the midst of them. ²⁷Its officials are like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain. ²⁸And for them its prophets plaster whitewash; they are seeing falseness and are practicing divination for them by lying, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh,’ and Yahweh has not spoken. ²⁹They severely oppress the people of the land, and they committed robbery,^x and they mistreated the needy and the poor, and they oppressed the alien without^y justice.

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Footnotes

vLiterally “to say”
wOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
xLiterally “and they seized a robbed things”
yLiterally “with not”