Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 Why beautify your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways. 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. 35 Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

Cross References

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.

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.

Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Exodus 22:2

If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten that he dies, there shall no blood be shed for him.

Psalm 106:37-38

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

Isaiah 57:5

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

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 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I punish them they shall be cast down, 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 commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their punishment they shall be cast down, says the LORD.

Ezekiel 16:20-21

Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne unto me, and these have you sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this act of your harlotries a small matter,

Ezekiel 20:31

For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

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