and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

And I have judged thee -- judgments of adulteresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.

As to righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, And the judgment of women shedding blood, For they are adulteresses, And blood is in their hands.

Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the coming in of its time, And it hath made idols on it for defilement.