Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Forge the chain,
for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,
and the city is filled with violence.

International Standard Version

"Forge a chain, because the land is full of bloody judgment and the city is filled with violence.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

‘Prepare the chain [for imprisonment], for the land is full of bloody crimes [murders committed under the pretense of civil justice] and the city is full of violence.

Bible in Basic English

Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Make the chain: for the land was filled with judgment of bloods, and the city was filled with violence.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Make a chain for the land; it is full of {bloody crimes} and the city is full of violence.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"I will make clean riddance, for the land is whole defiled with unrighteous judgment of innocent blood, and the city is full of abominations.

NET Bible

(Make the chain, because the land is full of murder and the city is full of violence.)

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Prepare thou a chain, For the land is full of the crime of bloodshed, And the city is full of violence.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
a chain
רתּוק 
Rattowq 
Usage: 2

for the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

is full
מלא מלא 
Male' 
מלא מלא 
Male' 
Usage: 251
Usage: 251

of bloody
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

and the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

Context Readings

Judgment For The Profanation Of The Temple And Sanctuary

22 I will also turn my face from them, and they shall profane my secluded [place]. And robbers shall enter into it, and profane it. 23 Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be profaned.

Cross References

Jeremiah 27:2

Thus says LORD to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness. For they say, LORD has forsaken the land, and LORD does not see.

2 Kings 21:16

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

Ezekiel 11:6

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

Hosea 4:2

There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.

Isaiah 1:15

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

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. Thou did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.

Jeremiah 7:6

if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt,

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 40:1

The word which came to Jeremiah from LORD, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were carried away captiv

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.

Ezekiel 8:17

Then he said to me, Have thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to prov

Ezekiel 19:3-6

And she brought up one of her whelps. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

Ezekiel 22:3-6

And thou shall say, Thus says lord LORD: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and who makes idols against herself to defile her!

Ezekiel 22:9

Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood, and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

Ezekiel 22:13

Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou have made, and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Micah 2:2

And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Micah 7:2

The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she was carried away. She went into captivity. Her young sons also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets. And they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Zephaniah 3:3-4

Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.

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