21 When I got to see+ among the spoil an official garment from Shiʹnar,+ a good-looking one, and two hundred shekels* of silver and one gold bar, fifty shekels being its weight, then I wanted them,+ and I took them;+ and, look! they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent with the money* underneath it.”*+

17 And he went on to say to me: “Have you seen [this], O son of man? Is it such a light thing to the house of Judah to do the detestable things that they have done here, that they have to fill the land* with violence+ and that they should offend me again, and here they are thrusting out the shoot* to my nose?*

20 “‘And you would take your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to me,+ and you would sacrifice these to them to be devoured+—is that not enough of your acts of prostitution?

14 Alexander+ the coppersmith did me many injuries—Jehovah* will repay him according to his deeds+—

21 Hence put away all filthiness and that superfluous thing, badness,+ and accept with mildness the implanting of the word+ which is able to save YOUR souls.*+

14 They have eyes full of adultery*+ and unable to desist from sin,+ and they entice* unsteady souls. They have a heart trained in covetousness.+ They are accursed children.+