No one stood in the breach

23And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

24Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land not cleansed and not rained on in the day of indignation.’

25A conspiracy of her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing prey: they have devoured lives, they take wealth and precious things, they have multiplied her widows in her midst.

26Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have not distinguished between the holy and the common, and they have not made known the difference between the unclean and the clean. They have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I have been profaned among them.

27Her princes within her are like wolves tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy lives, in order to gain dishonest profit.

28And her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing falsehood and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

29The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery; they have mistreated the poor and needy, and they have oppressed the foreigner without justice.

30And I sought among them for a man who would build up a wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found none.

31So I poured out my indignation on them; with the fire of my wrath I consumed them. I have put their way on their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.