1 In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of Israel’s elders came to inquire of the Lord. As they were sitting with me,
2 the Lord’s word came to me:
3 Human one, speak to Israel’s elders and say to them, The Lord God proclaims: Have you come to petition me? As surely as I live, I reject your petitions. This is what the Lord God says!
4 Will you judge them, human one, will you judge them? Then expose to them the detestable practices of their ancestors.