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Jeremiah 2:34

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor. You did not catch them breaking and entering. But in spite of all these things

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Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another.  This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit, so that they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.


because they have abandoned me  and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.


and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,  and the Lord was not willing to forgive.


If a thief is caught in the act of breaking in, and he is beaten to death, no one is guilty of bloodshed.


For the blood she shed  is still within her. She put it out on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.


When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your children in the fire,  , you still continue to defile yourselves with all your idols today. So should I let you enquire of me, house of Israel? As I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God  #– #I will not let you enquire of me!


Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably? They weren’t at all ashamed. They can no longer feel humiliation. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen. When I punish them, they will collapse,’ says the Lord.


They have built the high places of Topheth  , in Ben Hinnom Valley  , in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,  a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.


Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably? They weren’t at all ashamed. They can no longer feel humiliation. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen. When I punish them, they will collapse, says the Lord.


Their feet run after evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.


who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter children in the wadis below the clefts of the rocks?


For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongues mutter injustice.


How skilfully you pursue love; you also teach evil women your ways.


if you no longer oppress the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow,  and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,


Her uncleanness stains her skirts. She never considered her end. Her downfall was astonishing; there was no one to comfort her. Lord, look on my affliction, for the enemy boasts.


Blind, they stumbled in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.


He answered me, ‘The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed,  and the city full of perversity. For they say, “The Lord has abandoned the land;  he does not see.”


The conspiracy of her prophets  within her is  like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.


‘When a man steals an ox or a sheep and butchers it or sells it, he must repay  five cattle for the ox or four sheep for the sheep.


But righteous men will judge them the way adulteresses  and those who shed blood are judged, for they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.





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