Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.

Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.

Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.

I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning I acted just as I was commanded.