She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion; he learned to catch prey, and he devoured men.

When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Thus says Jehovah to me, Make bonds and yokes for yourself, and put them on your neck,

This is the Word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had set him free from Ramah, when he had taken him, being bound in chains, from among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were being carried away captive to Babylon.

He has fenced me in and I cannot go out; He has made my bronze chain heavy.

Yet she was carried away; she went into captivity. Also her young ones were dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honored ones, and all her great ones were bound in chains.

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!

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

Then say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: The city sheds blood in her midst, that her time may come. And she makes idols within herself to defile herself.

Those who are near and those far from you will mock you as defiled of name and full of confusion.

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

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

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; I did not find them by secret search, but plainly on all these.

if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;

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.

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery burst forth. And blood touches against blood.

And they covet and seize fields and houses, and carry them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones till the morning.

Her prophets are wanton, treacherous people; her priests have profaned the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.