“‘They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, for it has caused them to stumble into sin.

They took pride in their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols. They made it into vile images; therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.

So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel.

In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.

I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.

Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

“Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman’s monthly uncleanness in my sight.

I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.

I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.

They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.