Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
Parallel translations
- KJV Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
- BSB Moreover, 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
- NKJV Also on your skirts is found The blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, But plainly on all these things.
- NASB “Also on your skirts is found The lifeblood of the innocent poor; You did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things,
- NLT Your clothing is stained with the blood of the innocent and the poor, though you didn’t catch them breaking into your houses!
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Quick answer
Israel's guilt includes the blood of the innocent poor. Their sin extends to injustice and murder.
Overview
Yahweh charges that the lifeblood of the innocent poor is found on their garments, shed without the excuse of self-defense against burglars. Idolatry has bred social injustice and violence against the vulnerable. The pairing of false worship with bloodshed shows how rejecting God corrodes love of neighbor.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Kgs 21:16Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- Jer 19:4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn’t know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
- 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
- Exod 22:2If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
- Isa 57:5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- Jer 7:31They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.
- Ezek 16:20–21“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
- Ezek 24:7For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
- Ps 106:37–38Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- Ezek 20:31When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!
- Jer 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down,” says Yahweh.
- Jer 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
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