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.

in their blood which you have shed, you have transgressed; and in your devices which you have formed, you have polluted yourself; and you have brought near your days, and have brought on the time of your years; therefore have I made you a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,

Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

Therefore thus says the Lord: O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.

that My wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken; I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem [with it] from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Judah to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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.

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.

and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt;

and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and have gone after strange gods whom you know not,

MEM. For the sins of her prophets, and iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,

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

Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

Who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:

even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,

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

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.

Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.

so that on you may come all the righteous blood being shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.