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Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding greatc, and the land is βfull of bloodd, and the city full of γperverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seethe not.

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Jer. 5:1• ¹{i}Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broadways thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justice, that seeketh fidelity; and I will pardon it.{/i} (Jer. 5:1)

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filled with.

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2 Kings 24:4• ⁴{i}and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah would not pardon.{/i} (2 Kings 24:4)

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or, wresting of judgment.

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Psa. 10:11• ¹¹He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten,{HR}He hath hidden his face;{HR}He will not see forever. (Psa. 10:11)

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Isa. 29:15• ¹⁵Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel far from Jehovah! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? (Isa. 29:15)

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The iniquity.

Ezek. 7:23• ²³{i}Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.{/i} (Ezek. 7:23)

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Ezek. 22:2‑12,25‑31• ²Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations.
³Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
⁴Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years; therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
⁵Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
⁶{i}Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.{/i}
⁷{i}In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.{/i}
⁸{i}Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my Sabbaths.{/i}
⁹{i}In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness;{/i}
¹⁰{i}in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation.{/i}
¹¹{i}And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.{/i}
¹²{i}In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.{/i}
²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
²⁶Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
²⁸And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.
²⁹The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
³⁰And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
³¹Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 22:2‑12,25‑31)

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Deut. 31:29• ²⁹{i}For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and mischief will befall you at the end of days; because ye do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.{/i} (Deut. 31:29)

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Deut. 32:5,15‑22• ⁵{i}They have dealt corruptly with him;{HR}Not his children's is their spot:{HR}—A crooked and perverted generation!{HR}{/i}
¹⁵{i}Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked{HR}—Thou art waxen fat,{HR}Thou art grown thick,{HR}And thou art covered with fatness;{HR}—He gave up God who made him,{HR}And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.{HR}{/i}
¹⁶{i}They moved him to jealousy with strange gods,{HR}With abominations did they provoke him to anger.{HR}{/i}
¹⁷{i}They sacrificed unto demons who are not God;{/i}{HR}To gods whom they knew not,{HR}To new gods that came newly up,{HR}Whom your fathers feared not.
¹⁸Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,{HR}And hast forgotten God that formed thee.
¹⁹{i}And Jehovah saw it, and despised them,{HR}Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.{HR}{/i}
²⁰{i}And he said, I will hide my face from them,{HR}I will see what their end shall be;{HR}For they are a perverse generation,{HR}Children in whom is no faithfulness.{HR}{/i}
²¹{i}They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God;{HR}They have exasperated me with their vanities;{HR}And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people;{HR}With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.{HR}{/i}
²²{i}For a fire is kindled in mine anger,{HR}And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol,{HR}And shall consume the earth and its produce,{HR}And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:5,15‑22)

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2 Kings 17:7‑23• ⁷{i}And so it was, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods;{/i}
⁸{i}and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.{/i}
⁹{i}And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;{/i}
¹¹{i}and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;{/i}
¹²{i}and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.{/i}
¹³{i}And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.{/i}
¹⁴{i}But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.{/i}
¹⁶{i}And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;{/i}
¹⁷{i}and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.{/i}
¹⁸{i}Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there remained but the tribe of Judah only.{/i}
¹⁹{i}Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.{/i}
²⁰{i}And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel; and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.{/i}
²¹{i}For Israel had rent the kingdom from the house of David; and they had made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam violently turned Israel from following Jehovah, and made them sin a great sin.{/i}
²²{i}And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them:{/i}
²³{i}until Jehovah had removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said through all his servants the prophets; and Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day.{/i} (2 Kings 17:7‑23)

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2 Chron. 36:14‑16• ¹⁴{i}All the chiefs of the priests also, and the people, increased their transgressions, according to all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And Jehovah the God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending; because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling-place.{/i}
¹⁶{i}But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.{/i} (2 Chron. 36:14‑16)

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Isa. 1:4• ⁴Ah! sinful nation; a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children corrupting themselves. They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are estranged backward. (Isa. 1:4)

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Isa. 59:2‑8,12‑15• ²but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he doth not hear.
³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips are speaking lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
⁴None sueth in righteousness, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
⁵They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
⁶Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.
⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction [are] in their paths.
⁸The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.
¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions [are] with us, and our iniquities, we know them:
¹³in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
¹⁵And truth is lacking; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. (Isa. 59:2‑8,12‑15)

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Jer. 5:1‑9• ¹{i}Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broadways thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justice, that seeketh fidelity; and I will pardon it.{/i}
²{i}And if they say, As Jehovah liveth! surely they swear falsely.{/i}
³{i}Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.{/i}
⁴{i}And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God{/i}.
⁵{i}I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God; but these have altogether broken the yoke, have burst the bonds.{/i}
⁶Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
⁷How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
⁸They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
⁹Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (Jer. 5:1‑9)

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Jer. 7:8‑9• ⁸Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
⁹Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; (Jer. 7:8‑9)

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Mic. 3:9‑12• ⁹Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
¹⁰They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
¹¹{i}The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.{/i}
¹²Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. (Mic. 3:9‑12)

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Zeph. 3:1‑4• ¹Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
²She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.
³Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
⁴Her prophets are light and treacherous persons, her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. (Zeph. 3:1‑4)

and the land.

Ezek. 8:17• ¹⁷Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, Ο son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. (Ezek. 8:17)

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2 Kings 21:16• ¹⁶{i}And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.{/i} (2 Kings 21:16)

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2 Kings 24:4• ⁴{i}and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah would not pardon.{/i} (2 Kings 24:4)

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Jer. 2:34• ³⁴{i}Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but it is found upon all these.{/i} (Jer. 2:34)

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Jer. 22:17• ¹⁷But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)

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Lam. 4:13‑14• ¹³Because of the sins of her prophets,{HR}The iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
¹⁴They wandered blind in the streets, they were defiled with blood,{HR}So that men could not touch their garments. (Lam. 4:13‑14)

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Matt. 23:35‑37• ³⁵{i}so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.{/i}
³⁶{i}Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.{/i}
³⁷{i}Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!{/i} (Matt. 23:35‑37)

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Luke 11:50• ⁵⁰that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been poured out from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; (Luke 11:50)

full of.

Heb. filled with.

perverseness.

or, wresting ofjudgment.

Ezek. 22:27‑29• ²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
²⁸And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.
²⁹The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:27‑29)

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Mic. 3:1‑3• ¹{i}And I said{/i}, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
²{i}Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;{/i}
³{i}and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.{/i} (Mic. 3:1‑3)

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Mic. 7:3‑4• ³{i}Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it.{/i}
⁴{i}The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, worse than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.{/i} (Mic. 7:3‑4)

The Lord hath.

Ezek. 8:12• ¹²Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the earth. (Ezek. 8:12)

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Job 22:13• ¹³And thou sayest, What knoweth God?{HR}Will he judge through the darkness? (Job 22:13)

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Psa. 10:11• ¹¹He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten,{HR}He hath hidden his face;{HR}He will not see forever. (Psa. 10:11)

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Psa. 94:7• ⁷And they say, Jah will not see,{HR}Nor will the God of Jacob consider. (Psa. 94:7)

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Isa. 29:15• ¹⁵Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel far from Jehovah! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? (Isa. 29:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he said unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversenessa; for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "wresting [of judgment]."

W. Kelly Translation

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Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not.