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23 Make a chain![a]
For the land is full of bloody crimes;
    the city is full of violence.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain

He said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of perversity, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’(A)

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Thus the Lord said to me: Make for yourself yoke straps and bars and put them on your neck.(A)

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Swearing, lying, and murder,
    and stealing and adultery break out;
    bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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You have killed many in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.(A)

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16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he caused Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.(A)

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The officials within it
    are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
    that leave nothing until the morning.(A)
Its prophets are reckless,
    faithless persons;
its priests have profaned what is sacred;
    they have done violence to the law.(B)

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10 Yet she became an exile;
    she went into captivity;
even her infants were dashed in pieces
    at the head of every street;
lots were cast for her nobles;
    all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.(A)

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The faithful have disappeared from the land,
    and there is no one left who is upright;
they all lie in wait for blood,
    and they hunt each other with nets.(A)

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They covet fields and seize them,
    houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
    people and their inheritance.(A)

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27 Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.(A)

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13 See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain you have made and at the blood that has been shed within you.

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In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.(A)

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You shall say: Thus says the Lord God: A city! Shedding blood within itself; its time has come; making its idols, defiling itself. You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed and defiled by the idols that you have made; you have brought your days near; the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a disgrace before the nations and a mockery to all the countries. Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.

The princes of Israel in you, everyone according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.(A)

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She raised up one of her cubs;
    he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured humans.(A)
The nations heard about him;
    he was caught in their pit,
and they brought him with hooks
    to the land of Egypt.(B)
When she saw that she was thwarted,
    that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
    and made him a young lion.(C)
He prowled among the lions;
    he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured people.(D)

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17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O mortal? Is it not bad enough that the house of Judah commits the abominations done here? Must they fill the land with violence and provoke my anger still further? See, they are putting the branch to their nose!(A)

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He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
    he has put heavy chains on me;(A)

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Jeremiah with Gedaliah the Governor

40 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in fetters along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.(A)

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17 But your eyes and heart
    are only on your dishonest gain,
for shedding innocent blood,
    and for practicing oppression and violence.(A)

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if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,(A)

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34 Also on your skirts is found
    the lifeblood of the innocent poor,
though you did not catch them breaking in.
    Yet in spite of all these things[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.34 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Their feet run to evil,
    and they rush to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.(A)

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For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
    your tongue mutters wickedness.(A)

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15 When you stretch out your hands,
    I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
    I will not listen;
    your hands are full of blood.(A)

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and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.(A)

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