4 And Jehovah went on to say to him: “Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and you must put a mark* on the foreheads of the men that are sighing and groaning+ over all the detestable things that are being done in the midst of it.”+

26 Her priests themselves have done violence to my law,+ and they keep profaning my holy places.+ Between the holy thing and the common*+ they have made no distinction,+ and between the unclean thing and the clean they have made nothing known,+ and from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes,+ and I am profaned in the midst of them.+

6 My people will certainly be silenced, because there is no knowledge.+ Because the knowledge is what you yourself have rejected,+ I shall also reject you from serving as a priest to me;+ and [because] you keep forgetting the law of your God,*+ I shall forget your sons, even I.+

4 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of Judah,+ and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their rejecting the law of Jehovah,+ and [because] they did not keep his own regulations; but their lies,+ after which their forefathers had walked, kept making them wander.+