²⁰ But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, ^(A)they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’

⁵ Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and ^(A)continually all the day my name is despised.

^26 (A)Her priests ^(B)have done violence to my law and ^(C)have profaned my holy things. ^(D)They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and ^(E)they have disregarded my Sabbaths, ^(F)so that I am profaned among them.

²⁴ For, ^(A)as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed ^(B)among the Gentiles because of you.”