Ezekiel 7:23

In 11 translations

BSB

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

KJV

¶ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

WEB

“‘Make chains, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

ASV

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

LSV

Make the chain; for the land || Has been full of bloody judgments, || And the city has been full of violence.

YLT

Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.

DBY

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

DRC

Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.

GNV

Make a chaine: for the lande is full of the iudgement of blood, and the citie is full of crueltie.

JPS

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

LXXE

And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.

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WLC

עֲשֵׂ֖ה הָֽרַתּ֑וֹק כִּ֣י הָאָ֗רֶץ מָֽלְאָה֙ מִשְׁפַּ֣ט דָּמִ֔ים וְהָעִ֖יר מָלְאָ֥ה חָמָֽס׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ποιήσουσι φυρμόν· διότι ἡ γῆ πλήρης λαῶν, καὶ ἡ πόλις πλήρης ἀνομίας.

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• Ezekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
• Jeremiah 27:2This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
• Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
• Ezekiel 11:6You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
• 2 Kings 21:16Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 2:34Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
• Jeremiah 7:6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
• Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
• Ezekiel 22:13Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.
• Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
• Ezekiel 19:3–6She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men. When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of…
• Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
• Ezekiel 8:17“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to…
• Ezekiel 22:9Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
• Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
• Ezekiel 22:3–6and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself, you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by…

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