Ezekiel 11:6

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Ezekiel 11:6

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

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Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

And he said 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, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not.

And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, cause her to know all her abominations,

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it:

And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;

It is for the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the righteous in the midst of her.

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that leave nothing for the morning.

so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.