The earth is defiled by ¹  its inhabitants, ²  for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, ³  and broken the permanent treaty. ⁴ 

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land ¹  through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone. ² 

נ (Nun) They ¹  wander blindly ²  through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, ³  while no one dares ⁴  to touch their garments.

He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, ¹  full of turmoil.

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. ¹ 

I will do these things to you ¹  because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

So I poured my anger on them ¹  because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. ² 

I was concerned for my holy reputation ¹  which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

I will sprinkle you with pure water ¹  and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.

From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place, ¹  there are 1,290 days.

I know Ephraim all too well; ¹  the evil of ²  Israel is not hidden from me. For you have engaged in prostitution, O Ephraim; Israel has defiled itself. ³ 

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! ¹  For this land is not secure! ²  Sin will thoroughly destroy it! ³ 

Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, ¹  so we can gloat over Zion!” ² 

Her prophets are proud; ¹  they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; ²  they break God’s laws. ³ 

“In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty ¹  of David and the people of Jerusalem ²  to cleanse them from sin and impurity. ³ 

“But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings ¹  despicable.