⁹ In you are slanderers^(A) who are bent on shedding blood;^(B) in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines^(C) and commit lewd acts.^{(D) 10} In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed;^(E) in you are those who violate women during their period,^(F) when they are ceremonially unclean.^{(G) 11} In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,^(H) another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,^(I) and another violates his sister,^(J) his own father’s daughter.^{(K) 12} In you are people who accept bribes^(L) to shed blood; you take interest^(M) and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors.^(N) And you have forgotten^(O) me, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(P)

¹³ “‘I will surely strike my hands^(Q) together at the unjust gain^(R) you have made and at the blood^(S) you have shed in your midst.^{(T) 14} Will your courage endure^(U) or your hands^(V) be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken,^(W) and I will do it.^{(X) 15} I will disperse you among the nations and scatter^(Y) you through the countries; and I will put an end to^(Z) your uncleanness.^{(AA) 16} When you have been defiled^[a] in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord.’”

¹⁸ “Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross^(A) to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace.^(B) They are but the dross of silver.^{(C) 19} Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross,^(D) I will gather you into Jerusalem. ²⁰ As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you.^{(E) 21} I will gather you and I will blow^(F) on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her.^{(G) 22} As silver is melted^(H) in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath^(I) on you.’”^(J)

³⁰ “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall^(A) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.^{(B) 31} So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger,^(C) bringing down^(D) on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(E)”