Lamentations 4:13

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

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  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    [ It is] because of the sins{H2403} of her prophets,{H5030} [and] the iniquities{H5771} of her priests,{H3548} That have shed{H8210} the blood{H1818} of the just{H6662} in the midst{H7130} of her.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the sins{H2403} of her prophets{H5030}, and the iniquities{H5771} of her priests{H3548}, that have shed{H8210}{(H8802)} the blood{H1818} of the just{H6662} in the midst{H7130} of her,

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Which neuertheles is come to passe for ye synnes of hir prophetes, and for the wickednes of hir prestes, that haue shed innocentes bloude within her.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For the sinnes of her Prophets, and the iniquities of her Priests, that haue shed the blood of the iust in the middes of her.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Whiche neuerthelesse is come to passe for the sinne of her prophetes, and for the wickednesse of her priestes, that haue shed innocents blood within her.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    `It is' because of the sins of her prophets, `and' the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    [ It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    מ(Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. And My people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
  • Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for unjust gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
  • Jer 26:8-9 : 8 And when Jeremiah finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, the prophets, and all the people seized him, saying, 'You shall surely die!' 9 'Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, “This house will become like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitants”?' And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the LORD's house.
  • Lam 2:14 : 14 The visions of your prophets were false and empty; they did not expose your iniquity to restore your fortunes. Instead, they saw false and misleading oracles for you.
  • Ezek 22:26-28 : 26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common or teach the difference between the unclean and the clean. They shut their eyes to my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned among them. 27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and destroy lives to make unjust gain. 28 Her prophets plaster false visions for them, prophesying lies and saying, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
  • Matt 23:31 : 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
  • Matt 23:33-37 : 33 You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell? 34 Therefore, look, I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35 so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • Luke 11:47-51 : 47 Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, yet it was your ancestors who killed them. 48 So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. 49 Because of this, the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will kill, and others they will persecute.' 50 So that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation— 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.
  • Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 They killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and they drove us out. They do not please God and are hostile to everyone. 16 They forbid us to speak to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way, they constantly fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath of God has come upon them fully.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  • Mic 3:11-12 : 11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.' 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.
  • Zeph 3:3-4 : 3 Her officials are roaring lions in her midst; her judges are wolves of the evening, leaving nothing for the morning. 4 Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and have done violence to the law.
  • Jer 14:14 : 14 The LORD said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in My name. I did not send them, command them, or speak to them. They are seeing false visions, giving worthless divinations and deceitful messages from their own hearts.
  • Jer 23:11-21 : 11 For both prophet and priest have become corrupt. Even in My house I have found their wickedness, declares the LORD. 12 Therefore, their path will become for them like slippery places in the darkness. They will be pushed and fall there, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD. 13 Among the prophets of Samaria I saw something disgraceful: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray. 14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from their wickedness. They have all become to Me like Sodom, and the inhabitants like Gomorrah. 15 Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: Behold, I will make them eat bitter wormwood and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land. 16 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. 17 They keep saying to those who despise the LORD, ‘The LORD says you will have peace.’ And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, ‘No harm will come to you.’ 18 For who has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has paid attention to His word and obeyed it? 19 Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone forth in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked. 20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come, you will clearly understand it. 21 I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zeph 3:3-4
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    82%

    3 Her officials are roaring lions in her midst; her judges are wolves of the evening, leaving nothing for the morning.

    4 Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and have done violence to the law.

  • Lam 4:14
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    14 They wandered blindly through the streets, defiled by blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

  • Mic 3:10-12
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    77%

    10 You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

    11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.'

    12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • Rev 18:24
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    24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.

  • Ezek 24:6-8
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    76%

    6 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it and whose rust will not come off! Take its pieces out one by one; no lot will be cast for them.

    7 For the blood she has shed is inside her; she placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

    8 To stir up wrath and bring vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so it would not be covered.

  • Ezek 22:25-28
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    76%

    25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets within her, like a roaring lion that tears its prey; they have devoured lives, seized treasure and precious things, and made many widows within her.

    26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common or teach the difference between the unclean and the clean. They shut their eyes to my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned among them.

    27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and destroy lives to make unjust gain.

    28 Her prophets plaster false visions for them, prophesying lies and saying, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
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    4 And also because of the innocent blood that he had shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to pardon.

  • Jer 19:4
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    4 For they have abandoned Me and made this place foreign. They have burned incense here to other gods—gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

  • Isa 1:21
    75%

    21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness once dwelt in her, but now murderers.

  • Lam 4:12
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    12 Neither the kings of the earth nor the inhabitants of the world believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 14:16
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    16 And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

  • Rev 16:6
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    6 For they shed the blood of your holy people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.

  • Isa 4:4
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    4 The Lord will wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleanse the bloodstains of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning.

  • Ezek 23:45
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    45 But righteous men will judge them for committing adultery and shedding blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

  • Jer 23:11
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    11 For both prophet and priest have become corrupt. Even in My house I have found their wickedness, declares the LORD.

  • Rev 18:5
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    5 For her sins have piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her injustices.

  • Ezek 22:3
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    3 Then say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that sheds blood in her midst to bring her time closer, and makes idols to defile herself,

  • Jer 32:32
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    32 It is because of all the evil that the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger. Their kings, princes, priests, prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem have all been guilty.

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    2 There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

  • Jer 2:34
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    34 Even on your skirts is found the blood of the innocent poor. You did not find them breaking in, yet it is because of all these things.

  • Lam 1:8
    72%

    8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

  • Nah 3:4
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    4 All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

  • Jer 4:17
    72%

    17 They surround her like men guarding a field because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD.

  • Ezek 11:6
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    6 You have multiplied your slain in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

  • Rev 19:2
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    2 For His judgments are true and just; He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His servants on her.

  • Ezek 9:4
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    4 The LORD said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable things being done within it.'

  • Ezek 22:13
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    13 See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.

  • Ezek 13:16
    71%

    16 along with the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and claimed visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Hos 4:8-9
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    71%

    8 They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

    9 And it will be like people, like priest. I will punish them for their ways, and repay them for their deeds.

  • Jer 4:9
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    9 On that day, declares the LORD, the heart of the king and the officials will fail; the priests will be horrified, and the prophets will be astonished.

  • Jer 4:14
    71%

    14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9 He said to me, 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of injustice. They say, "The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see."'

  • Ezek 22:6
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    6 See, the princes of Israel, each one by his own might, have been in you to shed blood.

  • Lam 1:10
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    10 The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.

  • Ezek 22:9
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    9 The men in you who slander for the purpose of shedding blood eat at the high places; they commit lewdness in your midst.

  • Hos 6:8
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    8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.

  • Jer 23:14
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    14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from their wickedness. They have all become to Me like Sodom, and the inhabitants like Gomorrah.

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    1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, packed with plunder, never without prey.

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    17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.

  • Zeph 1:17
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    17 I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.