for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has uttered perverseness.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and to do violence.

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

Then He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is full of perversity; for they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land; and, Jehovah does not see!

Behold, the rulers of Israel: each one was in you by his power to shed blood in you.

Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?

in order that on you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon 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.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to Jehovah, but the words of the pure are pleasant.

The wicked devices of foolishness is sin; and the scorner is an abomination to men.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual perversions, murders,

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

But Peter said to him, Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!

Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, neither devastation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

destruction and misery are in their ways;