So now what have I here’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘that my people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.
All who are under the yoke as slaves should regard their own masters as worthy of all respect, so that God’s name and his teaching will not be blasphemed.
‘Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, “This is what the Lord God says: In this way also your ancestors blasphemed me by committing treachery against me: