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Ezekiel 7:23

Tree of Life Version

“Forge the chain! For the land is full of bloodshed. The city is full of violence.

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He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; the land is full of blood and the city is full of corruption. For they say, ‘Adonai has forsaken the land, Adonai does not see!’

thus says Adonai to me—“Make straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

You have multiplied your slain in this city and you filled the streets with corpses.”

Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood until he filled Jerusalem with blood from one end to another—in addition to his sin which he made Judah sin, in doing what was evil in Adonai’s eyes.

Yet she went off to exile among the captives. Even her babes were dashed to pieces at the head of all streets. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her great men were bound with chains.

The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.

They covet fields, so they seize them, or houses, and take them away. So they oppress a man and his house— a man and his inheritance.

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing at prey, spilling blood and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

“Now look, I clap My hands at your dishonest gain that you have made and at your bloodshed in your midst.

Slanderous men are in you in order to shed blood. They have eaten at the mountain shrines; they commit immoral acts in your midst.

He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it too light a thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations they practice here, that they must also fill the land with violence and provoke Me still more? Look, they are putting the twig to My nose!

He has walled me in so I cannot get out. He made my chain heavy.

The word which came to Jeremiah from Adonai, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had released him from Ramah. He had taken him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were being exiled to Babylon.

“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”

not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin—

Moreover on your skirts is found the blood of the innocent poor —you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things,

Their feet run after evil. They rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Violence and ruin are on their highways.

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. When you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood!”

and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed—for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood that Adonai was not willing to pardon.

As a well gushes out its waters, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and havoc are heard in her, sickness and wounds ever before Me.

wronged the poor and needy, taken by robbery, not restored the pledge, lifted up his eyes to the idols, committed abomination,

Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Let it be enough for you, princes of Israel. Get rid of violence and destruction, execute justice and righteousness, take away your oppression from My people”—it is a declaration of Adonai.

So He brought me into the inner court of Adonai’s House. Behold, at the door of the Temple of Adonai, between the porch and the altar, were about 25 men, with their backs toward the Temple of Adonai and their faces toward the east—and they were bowing in worship eastward toward the sun.

Say to the people of the land, this is what Adonai says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because her land will be stripped of all that is in it, because of the violence of all who live there.




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