²⁵ Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you eat^(A) meat with the blood^(B) still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?^(C)

²⁶ You rely on your sword, you do detestable things,^(A) and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife.^(B) Should you then possess the land?’

Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

3 Then I said,

⁵ Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the Lord, I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them.^(A)