Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

New American Standard Bible

Who build Zion with bloodshed
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

King James Version

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Holman Bible

who build Zion with bloodshed
and Jerusalem with injustice.

International Standard Version

who are building up Zion by means of bloodshed, and Jerusalem by means of iniquity.

American Standard Version

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Amplified


Who build Zion with blood [and extortion and murder]
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

Bible in Basic English

They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

Darby Translation

that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.

Julia Smith Translation

Building Zion with bloods and Jerusalem with iniquity.

King James 2000

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Lexham Expanded Bible

he who builds Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wickedness.

Modern King James verseion

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong.

NET Bible

You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

New Heart English Bible

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

The Emphasized Bible

Building Zion, with deeds of blood, - and Jerusalem, with perversity.

Webster

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

World English Bible

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Youngs Literal Translation

Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
They build up
בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

ציּון 
Tsiyown 
Usage: 154

with blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

and Jerusalem
ירוּשׁלים ירוּשׁלם 
Y@ruwshalaim 
Usage: 642

Context Readings

Israel's Leaders Denounced

9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.



Cross References

Jeremiah 22:13-17

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire,

Ezekiel 22:25-28

There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst thereof.

Habakkuk 2:9-12

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.

Matthew 27:25

And having answered, all the people said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

John 11:50

nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not the whole nation should perish.

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