Therefore righteous men shall judge them by the law of adulteresses and after the law of women that shed blood because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

For thus hath the Lord GOD said: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein and whose scum is not gone out of it! For her pieces, because of her pieces let it be removed; let no lot fall upon it.

Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another besides his sin with which he made Judah sin so that they would do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did

I have smitten your children in vain; they have received no correction; your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery, they prevailed, and blood touches blood.

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; stealing does not depart from her!

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye murdered between the temple and the altar.

Then all the people answered and said, His blood be on us and on our children.

that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

Who of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? and they have slain those who announced before the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers,

Thou shalt

Son of man, notify Jerusalem of her abominations

Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up thy voice like a shofar and preach to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sin.

Those that persist in sin rebuke before all, that the others may also fear.

Her abominations

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

General references

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people; thou shalt know and examine their way.

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