9 I looked again and saw that its companion had been killed; the pure white wings of Righteousness were trampled in the dust.
10 I tell you men, your awfulness of guilt has made a cesspool of iniquity that sends a fearful stench to heaven.
11 Reform, O Israel, reform; prepare to meet your king.
12 And then John turned away and as he went he said,
13 In seven days, lo, I will stand at Gilgal, by the Jordan ford, where Israel first crossed into the promised land.
14 And then he left the temple court to enter it no more; but many people followed him as far as Bethany, and there he tarried at the home of Lazarus, his kin.
15 The anxious people gathered all about the home and would not go; then John came forth and said,
16 Reform, O Israel, reform; prepare to meet your king.
17 The sins of Israel do not all lie at the door of priest and scribe. O think you not that all the sinners of Judea are found among the rulers and the men of wealth.
18 It is no sign that man is good and pure because he lives in want.