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In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
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You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
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In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
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In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity.
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One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.
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In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me," says the Lord God.
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"Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.
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Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and will do it.
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I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you.
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You shall defile yourself in the sight of the nations; then you shall know that I am the Lord." ' "
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The word of the Lord came to me, saying,