Parallel Verses

King James 2000

Make a 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.

A Conservative Version

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

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 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23  Make a 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 pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.



Cross References

Jeremiah 27:2

Thus says the LORD to me; Make yourself bonds and yokes, and put them upon your neck,

Ezekiel 9:9

Then said he unto 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, The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD sees not.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, 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 the LORD.

Ezekiel 11:6

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

Hosea 4:2

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.

2 Kings 24:4

And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

Isaiah 1:15

And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you 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 has muttered perverseness.

Isaiah 59:7

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

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but plainly upon all these things.

Jeremiah 7:6

If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 40:1

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive unto Babylon.

Lamentations 3:7

He has hedged me in, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.

Ezekiel 8:17

Then he said unto me, Have you 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

Ezekiel 19:3-6

And she brought up one of her cubs: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

Ezekiel 22:3-6

Then say you, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and makes idols within herself to defile herself.

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are men that slander to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

Ezekiel 22:13

Behold, therefore I have struck my hands together at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Micah 2:2

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Micah 7:2

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

Nahum 3:10

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children 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 princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave not a bone till the morning.

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