Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Even in thy skirts, is there found, The blood of the lives of the helpless innocents, - Not in the act of breaking in, didst thou find them, yet the blood is on all these.

New American Standard Bible

“Also on your skirts is found
The lifeblood of the innocent poor;
You did not find them breaking in.
But in spite of all these things,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Moreover, your skirts are stained
with the blood of the innocent poor.
You did not catch them breaking and entering.
But in spite of all these things

International Standard Version

On your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, even though you didn't catch them breaking in. Yet despite all these things,

A Conservative Version

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.

American Standard Version

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

Amplified


“Also on your skirts is found
The lifeblood of the innocent poor;
You did not find them breaking in [a house].
But in spite of all these things [your disobedience, your love of idolatry, your lack of compassion]—

Bible in Basic English

And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...

Darby Translation

Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but it is found upon all these.

Julia Smith Translation

Also in thy wings were found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: not by breaking in did I find them, but upon all these.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Also on your skirts is found [the] blood of [the] life of [the] innocent, [the] poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these [things],

Modern King James verseion

Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; I did not find them by breaking in, but on all these.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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.

NET Bible

Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,

New Heart English Bible

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.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּנף 
Kanaph 
Usage: 109

is found
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

the blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

of the souls
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

of the poor
H34
אביון 
'ebyown 
Usage: 61

נקיא נקי 
Naqiy 
Usage: 43

I have not found
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

it by secret search
מחתּרת 
Machtereth 
Usage: 2

References

Hastings

Sin

Context Readings

Israel Deserves To Be Punished

33 How thou dost make winsome thy way, to seek love! Therefore, even unto wicked women, hast thou taught thy ways. 34 Even in thy skirts, is there found, The blood of the lives of the helpless innocents, - Not in the act of breaking in, didst thou find them, yet the blood is on all these. 35 Although thou saidst, Because I am innocent, surely hath his anger turned back from me, - Behold me! entering into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned!

Cross References

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover also, innocent blood, did Manasseh shed in great abundance, till he had filled Jerusalem, from one end to the other, besides his committing the sins which he caused, Judah, to commit, in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh.

2 Kings 24:4

moreover also, for the innocent blood that he had shed, so that he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, - which Yahweh was not willing to pardon.

Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken me, And have treated this as a foreign place, And have burned incense therein to other gods, which neither they, nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah, have known; And have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Exodus 22:2

If, in the place of breaking in, the thief be found and he is smitten so that he dieth, there is due for him no shedding of blood:

Psalm 106:37-38

Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mischievous demons;

Isaiah 57:5

Who inflame yourselves With the terebinths, Under every green tree - Slaying the children, In the torrent-valleys, Under the clefts of the crags:

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet, to mischief, do run, And they speed to shed innocent blood, - Their devices, are devices of iniquity, Wasting and destruction, are in their high roads;

Jeremiah 6:15

Were they led to turn pale because an abominable thing, they had done! Nay! they did not, at all turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame, Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when I punish them, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh.

Jeremiah 7:31

And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn up their sons and their daughters in the fire, - Which I commanded not, Neither came it up on my heart,

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they led to turn pale because an abominable thing, they had done? Nay! they did not, at all turn pale Nay! they did not so much as know how to exhibit shame! Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when they are punished, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh:

Ezekiel 16:20-21

And thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, Whom thou hadst borne unto me, And didst sacrifice them unto them to be devoured,- Is this of thine unchastity. a light thing?

Ezekiel 20:31

Yea when ye lift up your gifts When ye cause your children to pass through the fire, Ye are defiling yourselves unto all your manufactured gods unto this day, And shall be enquired of by you. house of Israel. As I live, Declareth My Lord Yahweh, Surely I will not be enquired of by you.

Ezekiel 24:7

For, her own blood, hath come to be in her midst, Upon the smooth face of the cliff, hath she set it,- She hath not poured it out on the earth, that she might cover it with dust.

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