Righteous men will judge them with punishments fit for adulterers and for those who shed blood, because they're adulterers with blood on their hands."

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "How terrible it is for that blood-filled city, to the pot whose rust remains in it, whose rust won't come off. Empty it one piece at a time. Don't let a lot fall on it.

In addition to this, Manasseh shed lots of innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another besides his sin by which he caused Judah to sin by practicing what the LORD considered to be evil.

It was truly by the command of the LORD against Judah that it came, in order to remove them from his sight, because of every sin that Manasseh had committed,

"I've punished your children with no results, they have accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion."

Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.

Woe to this city, contaminated with shed blood, all full of lies and robberies it is never without victims!

As a result, you will be held accountable for all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Berechiah's son Zechariah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and our children!"

so those living today will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that was shed since the foundation of the world,

Which of the prophets did your ancestors fail to persecute? They killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Thou shalt

"Son of Man, make known to Israel her detestable practices.

"Shout aloud! Don't hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their rebellions, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

As for those who keep on sinning, rebuke them in front of everyone so that the rest will also be afraid.

Her abominations

Then he told me, "Go on through that entrance, so you may see the wicked, detestable things that they're committing here."

General references

"I've made you an assayer of my people, as well as a fortress. You know how to test their way."

You've increased the number of fatally wounded in this city and you've filled your streets with the dead."