For your lifeblood shall I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I shall require a man's life at the hand of his fellow man.

He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

So shall you not pollute with murder the land in which you dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon [it].

For He remembered them, [in] making inquisition for blood; He has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

For behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from [His] holy place on those that dwell upon the earth; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

"Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her!"

The sound of harpists, and musicians, and of flutists, and of trumpeters shall by no means be heard in you anymore. And no craftsman of any craft shall by no means be found in you anymore, and the sound of a mill shall by no means be heard in you anymore.

And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all those who had been slain on the earth."

You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,

Cut off your hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on your lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.

For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless; for God recompenses them.