Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he
You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutte
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing ex
Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will no
She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt
Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They ca
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they a
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance
and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, h
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in thi
and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and
Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.