Jeremiah 2:34

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Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,

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  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.
  • Jer 19:4 : 4 I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.
  • Exod 22:2 : 2 “If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.
  • Ezek 16:20-21 : 20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution was not enough, 21 you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.
  • Ezek 20:31 : 31 When you present your sacrifices– when you make your sons pass through the fire– you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not allow you to seek me!
  • Ezek 24:7 : 7 For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.
  • Ps 106:37-38 : 37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. 38 They shed innocent blood– the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 you who inflame your lusts among the oaks and under every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
  • Jer 6:15 : 15 Are they ashamed because they have done such shameful things? No, they are not at all ashamed. They do not even know how to blush! So they will die, just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,”says the LORD.
  • Jer 7:31 : 31 They have also built places of worship in a place called Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing!
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things? No, they are not at all ashamed! They do not even know how to blush! So they will die just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them, says the LORD.

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    35you say,‘I have not done anything wrong, so the LORD cannot really be angry with me any more.’ But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you because you say,‘I have not committed any sin.’

  • Jer 2:33
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    33“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

  • Jer 13:22
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    22You will probably ask yourself,‘Why have these things happened to me? Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’ It is because you have sinned so much.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

  • Ezek 16:22
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    22And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13מ(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.

    14נ(Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.

  • Ezek 22:9-13
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    9Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you.

    10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

    11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.

    12They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    13“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

  • Ps 94:21
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    21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18“The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”

  • Jer 19:4
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    4I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.

  • Ezek 24:7-8
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    7For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

    8To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

  • Ezek 16:36
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    36This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them,

  • Jer 13:26
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    26So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress!

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
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    4Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.

  • Hab 2:10
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    10Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

  • Ezek 22:6-7
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    6“‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.

    7They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

  • Isa 59:3
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    3For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

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    5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?

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  • Rev 18:24
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    24The blood of the saints and prophets was found in her, along with the blood of all those who had been killed on the earth.”

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    8Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints!

  • Isa 1:21
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    21Purifying Judgment How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers.

  • Amos 2:7
    70%

    7They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

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    70%

    2No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

  • Lam 2:21
    70%

    21ש(Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy.

  • Ezek 22:4
    69%

    4you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

  • Isa 59:7
    69%

    7They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

  • Job 36:17
    69%

    17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Deut 19:10
    69%

    10You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

  • Jer 11:15
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    15The LORD says to the people of Judah,“What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them?

  • 1 Sam 24:11
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    11Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.

  • Ezek 16:38
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    38I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage.

  • Amos 5:12
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    12Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9He said to me,“The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, for they say,‘The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see!’

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    45But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

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    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

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    8Because you robbed many countries, all who are left among the nations will rob you. You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them.

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    8He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

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    19Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

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    22You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” says the Sovereign LORD.