Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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.

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.

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.

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 profane my secret [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 Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your 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 perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.

2 Kings 21:16

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 to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

Ezekiel 11:6

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

Hosea 4:2

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, 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 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 the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your 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 Yahweh, after that 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 captive to Babylon.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

Ezekiel 8:17

Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], 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 provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Ezekiel 19:3-6

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

Ezekiel 22:3-6

You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

Ezekiel 22:9

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

Ezekiel 22:13

Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand 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 its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Micah 2:2

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 godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts 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 in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

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