And shed innocent blood,The blood of their sons and their daughters,Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;And the land was polluted with the blood.

Like a trampled spring and a polluted wellIs a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

God says, “If a husband divorces his wifeAnd she goes from himAnd belongs to another man,Will he still return to her?Will not that land be completely polluted?But you are a harlot with many lovers;Yet you turn to Me,” declares the Lord.

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;Where have you not been violated?By the roads you have sat for themLike an Arab in the desert,And you have polluted a landWith your harlotry and with your wickedness.

Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.”

“For both prophet and priest are polluted;Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

“And now many nations have been assembled against youWho say, ‘Let her be polluted,And let our eyes gloat over Zion.’

save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.