And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

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.

Verily, at the commandment of Jehovah it came to pass against Judah, that they should be removed out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done;

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

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

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and violence; the prey departeth not.

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.

And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children.

that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers!

Thou shalt

Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Those that sin convict before all, that the rest also may have fear.

Her abominations

And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

General references

I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress, that thou mayest know and try their way.

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