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.
Ezekiel 34:3 - Tree of Life Version You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fat ones. But you do not take care of the sheep. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill the fatlings, but you do not feed the sheep. American Standard Version (1901) Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep. Common English Bible You drink the milk, you wear the wool, and you slaughter the fat animals, but you don’t tend the flock. Catholic Public Domain Version You consumed the milk, and you covered yourselves with the wool, and you killed what was fattened. But my flock you did not feed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You ate the milk, end you clothed yourselves with the wool, and you killed that which was fat: but my flock you did not feed. |
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.
There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose molars are knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.
Hear the word of Adonai, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the Torah of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
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!”
“In vain I struck your children. They took no correction. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.”
“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”
Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her kohanim, who shed in her midst the blood of the tzadikim .
When she raised up one of her cubs, he became a young lion. When he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.
He prowled among the lions. He became a young lion, learned to catch prey, devoured men.
Reclining on beds of ivory, sprawling on their couches, dining on lambs from the flock and calves from amid the stall,
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the night, leaving nothing but bones for morning.
For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the dying, seek out the young or heal the injured or nourish the healthy. Instead he will eat the meat of the choice sheep, even tearing off their hoofs.”
Their buyers slay them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Adonai, for I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them.