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" 'See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.17
In you they have treated father and mother with contempt;2 in you they have oppressed the alien3 and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.48
You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.59
In you are slanderous men6 bent on shedding blood;7 in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines8 and commit lewd acts.910
In you are those who dishonor their fathers' bed;10 in you are those who violate women during their period,11 when they are ceremonially unclean.1211
In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor's wife,13 another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,14 and another violates his sister,15 his own father's daughter.1612
In you men accept bribes17 to shed blood; you take usury18 and excessive interesta and make unjust gain from your neighbors19 by extortion. And you have forgotten20 me, declares the Sovereign LORD.21
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