Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
Then say thou, Thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
Wherefore thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, Yahweh hath forsaken the earth, and Yahweh seeth not.
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah son of Jehoiada, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: