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Shameless in Their Crimes

10 Therefore, I will give their wives to other men,
    their fields to new owners.
Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain,
    prophet and priest, all practice fraud.(A)
11 They have treated lightly
    the injury to the daughter of my people:[a]
“Peace, peace!” they say,
    though there is no peace.(B)
12 They have acted shamefully; they have done abominable things,
    yet they are not at all ashamed,
    they do not know how to blush.
Hence they shall be among those who fall;
    in their time of punishment they shall stumble,
    says the Lord.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:11 Daughter of my people: see note on 4:11.

10 Therefore I will give their wives to other men
    and their fields to new owners.(A)
From the least to the greatest,
    all are greedy for gain;(B)
prophets(C) and priests alike,
    all practice deceit.(D)
11 They dress the wound of my people
    as though it were not serious.
“Peace, peace,” they say,
    when there is no peace.(E)
12 Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
    No, they have no shame(F) at all;
    they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
    they will be brought down when they are punished,(G)
says the Lord.(H)

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