12 Now the sons of Eʹli were good-for-nothing men;*+ they did not acknowledge Jehovah.+

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.+

9 Hear, please, this, YOU head ones of the house of Jacob and YOU commanders of the house of Israel,+ the ones detesting justice and the ones who make even everything that is straight crooked;+