Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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 from them, my treasury shall be defiled: for the thieves shall go into it, and suspend it. 23 "I will make clean riddance, for the land is whole defiled with unrighteous judgment of innocent blood, and the city is full of abominations. 24 Wherefore, I will bring the most cruel tyrants from among the Heathen to take their houses in possession. I will make the pomp of the proud to cease, and they shall take in their Sanctuary.

Cross References

Jeremiah 27:2

"Make thee bonds and chains, and put them about thy neck,

Ezekiel 9:9

Then said he unto me, "The wickedness of the house of Israel and Judah is very great: so that the land is full of blood, and the city full of unfaithfulness. For they say, 'Tush, the LORD regardeth not the earth, he seeth us not.'

2 Kings 21:16

And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

Ezekiel 11:6

Many a one have ye murdered in this city, and filled the streets full of the slain.

Hosea 4:2

but swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adultery have gotten the overhand; and one bloodguiltiness followeth another.

2 Kings 24:4

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

Isaiah 1:15

When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with unrighteousness; Your lips speak lies, and your tongue setteth out wickedness.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels; harm and destruction are in their ways.

Jeremiah 2:34

Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor and innocent people; and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places.

Jeremiah 7:6

If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction;

Jeremiah 22:17

Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

Jeremiah 40:1

This is the manner how the LORD intreated Jeremiah, when Nebuzaradan the chief Captain had let him go free from Ramah, whither he had led him bound among all the prisoners, that were carried from Jerusalem and Judah unto Babylon.

Lamentations 3:7

{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.

Ezekiel 8:17

And he said unto me, "Hast thou seen this thou son of man? Thinketh the house of Israel that it is but a trifle to do these abominations here? Should they fill the land full of wickedness, and undertake to provoke me unto anger? Yea, and purposely to cast up their noses upon me?

Ezekiel 19:3-6

One of her whelps she brought up, and it became a lion: it learned to spoil, and to devour folk.

Ezekiel 22:3-6

and tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: O thou city, that sheddest blood in the midst of thee, that thy time may come also: and makest thee Idols to defile thee withal.

Ezekiel 22:9

Murderers are there in thee, that shed blood, and eat upon the hills, and in thee they use unhappiness.

Ezekiel 22:13

Behold, I have smitten my hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood which hath been shed in thee.

Ezekiel 22:27

Thy rulers in thee are like ravishing wolves, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, for their own covetous lucre.

Micah 2:2

When they covet to have land, they take it by violence; they rob men of their houses. Thus they oppress a man for his house, and every man for his heritage.

Micah 7:2

There is not a godly man upon earth, there is not one righteous among men. They labour all to shed blood, and every man hunteth his brother to death:

Nahum 3:10

yet was she driven away, and brought into captivity: her young children were smitten down at the head of every street, the lots were cast for the most ancient men in her, and all her mighty men were bound in chains.

Zephaniah 3:3-4

Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow.

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