because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in
But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he
The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not kn
and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Ro
Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their ow
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordin
Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it i
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for
Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voraciou
that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the word
Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, a
Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship
that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve ot
And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. T
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forev
They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into th
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing ex
For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you,
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselv
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in th
But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upo
As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation
And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst
Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in w
You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others