Ezekiel 13:18-20

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¹⁸ and say: Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every height, in the hunt for lives! Will you hunt down lives among my people and maintain your own lives?^{(A) 19} You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.^(B)

²⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord God: I am against your bands with which you hunt lives;^[a] I will tear them from your arms and let the lives go free, the lives that you hunt down like birds.