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And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

"Son of man, say to her, 'You are a land that is ^(C1)not clean or rained on in the day of indignation.'

"There is a ^(C1)conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have ^(C2)devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many ^(C3)widows in the midst of her.

"Her ^(C1)priests have done violence to My Law and have ^(C2)profaned My holy things; they have made no ^(C3)distinction between the holy and the ^(F1)common, and they have not taught the difference between the ^(C4)unclean and the clean; and they have closed their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.

"Her leaders within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and ^(C1)destroying lives in order to make ^(C2)dishonest profit.

"And her prophets have coated with whitewash for them, seeing ^(C1)false visions and divining lies for them, saying, 'This is what the Lord GOD says,' when the LORD has not spoken.

"The people of the land have practiced ^(C1)extortion and committed robbery, and they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have ^(C2)oppressed the stranger without justice.

"I ^(C1)searched for a man among them who would ^(C2)build up a wall and ^(C3)stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found ^(F1)no one.

"So I have poured out My ^(C1)indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; I have brought ^(C2)their way upon their heads," declares the Lord GOD.