When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

How has the faithful city of Zion, [once] full of judgment, become a harlot! Where righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

In vain have I smitten your children; you have not received correction. A sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you feared not.

and in your hands have been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.

Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.

Then He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah has become exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness; because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon [it].

And you, son of man, will you judge the bloody city? Yea, declare to her all her iniquities.

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

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

Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.

saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is [that] to us? You see to it!"

But seeing you have trusted in lying words, whereby you shall not be profited;

And they have bent their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known Me, says the Lord.

Everyone will mock his friend; they will not speak truth; their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

And therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord.

They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.

Woe to them! For they have started aside from Me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against Me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against Me.

whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?

speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been seared with a hot iron [as to] their own conscience,