And also Manasseh has shed very much innocent blood, till he has filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he caused Judah to sin, to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
The Word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, had sent him from Ramah, when he had taken him and he was bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah being exiled to Babylon.
As a cistern keeps fresh its waters, so she keeps fresh her evil. Violence and destruction are heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before My face.
if you do not oppress the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow; and do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and do not go after other gods to your evil;
And say to the people of the land, So says the Lord Jehovah to those living in Jerusalem, to the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, so that her land may be desolated of her fullness, because of the violence of all those who live in her.
he has oppressed the poor and needy ones; plundering he plundered; he has not returned the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols; he has done abominations;
So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel! Turn away violence and oppression, and do judgment and righteousness. Lift away your acts of violence from My people, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah. And, behold, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Jehovah, and their faces eastward. And they bowed themselves eastward to the sun.
And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah from doing the disgusting things which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have returned to provoke Me to anger. And, behold, they are putting the branch to their nose!
And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and of Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land; and, Jehovah does not see.
The godly one has perished from the earth, and the upright one is not among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each man hunts his brother with a net.
Yet she went into exile; she went into captivity. Also her boys were dashed to pieces at the head of all the open places, and they cast lots for her honored ones, and all her great ones were bound in chains.