Isaiah 59:3
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3 For (A)your hands are defiled with [a]blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue has muttered perversity.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 59:3 bloodshed
Isaiah 1:15
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15 (A)When you [a]spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
(B)Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of [b]blood.
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- Isaiah 1:15 Pray
- Isaiah 1:15 bloodshed
Hosea 4:2
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2 By swearing and lying,
Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
They break all restraint,
With bloodshed [a]upon bloodshed.
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- Hosea 4:2 Lit. touching
Ezekiel 7:23
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23 ‘Make a chain,
For (A)the land is filled with crimes of blood,
And the city is full of violence.
Jeremiah 2:34
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34 Also on your skirts is found
(A)The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by [a]secret search,
But plainly on all these things.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:34 digging
Jeremiah 2:30
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30 “In vain I have (A)chastened your children;
They (B)received no correction.
Your sword has (C)devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.
Isaiah 1:21
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The Degenerate City
21 (A)How the faithful city has become a [a]harlot!
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now (B)murderers.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:21 Unfaithful
1 Timothy 4:2
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2 (A)speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience (B)seared with a hot iron,
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Matthew 27:4
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4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”
And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!”
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Micah 7:2
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2 The (A)faithful[a] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
(B)Every man hunts his brother with a net.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:2 Or loyal
Micah 6:12
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12 For her rich men are full of (A)violence,
Her inhabitants have spoken lies,
And (B)their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Micah 3:10-12
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10 (A)Who build up Zion with (B)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 (C)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(D)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [a]money.
(E)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be (F)plowed like a field,
(G)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And (H)the mountain of the [b]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
- Micah 3:12 Lit. house
Hosea 7:13
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13 “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though (A)I redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
Hosea 7:3
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Ezekiel 35:6
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6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for (A)blood, and blood shall pursue you; (B)since you have not hated [a]blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
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- Ezekiel 35:6 Or bloodshed
Ezekiel 22:2
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2 “Now, son of man, (A)will you judge, will you judge (B)the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations!
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Ezekiel 13:8
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8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says the Lord God.
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Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and (A)the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, (B)‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and (C)the Lord does not see!’
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Jeremiah 22:17
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17 “Yet(A) your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,
For shedding innocent blood,
And practicing oppression and violence.”
Jeremiah 9:3-6
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3 “And like their bow (A)they have bent their tongues for lies.
They are not valiant for the truth on the earth.
For they proceed from (B)evil to evil,
And they (C)do not know Me,” says the Lord.
4 “Everyone(D) take heed to his [a]neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
For every brother will utterly supplant,
And every neighbor will (E)walk with slanderers.
5 Everyone will (F)deceive his neighbor,
And will not speak the truth;
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 9:4 friend
Jeremiah 7:8
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8 “Behold, you trust in (A)lying words that cannot profit.
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