²³ And the word of Yahweh came^[a] to me, saying,^{[b] 24} “Son of man,^[c] say to her, ‘You are a land not cleansed; it is not rained upon in the day of indignation.’ ²⁵ The 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. ²⁶ Its 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. ²⁷ Its officials are like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain. ²⁸ And 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. ²⁹ They severely oppress the people of the land, and they committed robbery,^[d] and they mistreated the needy and the poor, and they oppressed the alien without^[e] justice. ³⁰ And so I sought for them somebody, one repairing the wall and standing in the breach before me^[f] on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find anyone, ³¹ and so I poured out my indignation on them. With the fire of my wrath I destroyed them; I returned their way upon their head,” declares^[g] the Lord Yahweh.