For the pool of passion is sin, and its spring will pour out filth.
Therefore the Lord brought upon him injury (leprosy), and smote him until destroyed.
Thrones of the haughty did the Lord overturn, and he seated the humble in their stead.
Footprints of the heathens did the Lord bury, and its roots to earths core did he exterminate.
And he scraped them from the earth and rooted them out, and erased their memorial from earth. [Ezekiel 26:4. Alternatively: "He rooted out their cartilage from the land" See M. Pesachim 7:11]