Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways. 34 “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,
35 you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'

Cross References

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Kings 24:4

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

Jeremiah 19:4

Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Exodus 22:2

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,

Psalm 106:37-38

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

Isaiah 57:5

you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.

Jeremiah 7:31

And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.

Ezekiel 16:20-21

And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter

Ezekiel 20:31

When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.

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