For your hands are stained with blood,(A)
    your fingers with guilt.(B)
Your lips have spoken falsely,(C)
    and your tongue mutters wicked things.

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15 When you spread out your hands(A) in prayer,
    I hide(B) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.(C)

Your hands(D) are full of blood!(E)

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“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because of your false words and lying visions, I am against you,(A) declares the Sovereign Lord.

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34 On your clothes is found
    the lifeblood(A) of the innocent poor,
    though you did not catch them breaking in.(B)
Yet in spite of all this

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30 “In vain I punished your people;
    they did not respond to correction.(A)
Your sword has devoured your prophets(B)
    like a ravenous lion.

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21 See how the faithful city
    has become a prostitute!(A)
She once was full of justice;
    righteousness(B) used to dwell in her—
    but now murderers!(C)

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13 Woe(A) to them,
    because they have strayed(B) from me!
Destruction to them,
    because they have rebelled against me!
I long to redeem them
    but they speak about me(C) falsely.(D)

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There is only cursing,[a] lying(A) and murder,(B)
    stealing(C) and adultery;(D)
they break all bounds,
    and bloodshed follows bloodshed.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:2 That is, to pronounce a curse on

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will give you over to bloodshed(A) and it will pursue you.(B) Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

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He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice.(A) They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’(B)

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23 “‘Prepare chains!
    For the land is full of bloodshed,(A)
    and the city is full of violence.(B)

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But look, you are trusting(A) in deceptive(B) words that are worthless.

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Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.(A)

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“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”

“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”(A)

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The faithful have been swept from the land;(A)
    not one(B) upright person remains.
Everyone lies in wait(C) to shed blood;(D)
    they hunt each other(E) with nets.(F)

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12 Your rich people are violent;(A)
    your inhabitants are liars(B)
    and their tongues speak deceitfully.(C)

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10 who build(A) Zion with bloodshed,(B)
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.(C)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,(D)
    her priests teach for a price,(E)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.(F)
Yet they look(G) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”(H)
12 Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,(I)
    the temple(J) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.(K)

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“They delight the king with their wickedness,
    the princes with their lies.(A)

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“Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed?(A) Then confront her with all her detestable practices(B)

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17 “But your eyes and your heart
    are set only on dishonest gain,(A)
on shedding innocent blood(B)
    and on oppression and extortion.”(C)

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“They make ready their tongue
    like a bow, to shoot lies;(A)
it is not by truth
    that they triumph[a] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
    they do not acknowledge(B) me,”
declares the Lord.
“Beware of your friends;(C)
    do not trust anyone in your clan.(D)
For every one of them is a deceiver,[b](E)
    and every friend a slanderer.(F)
Friend deceives friend,(G)
    and no one speaks the truth.(H)
They have taught their tongues to lie;(I)
    they weary themselves with sinning.
You[c] live in the midst of deception;(J)
    in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth
  2. Jeremiah 9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob
  3. Jeremiah 9:6 That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)

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