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
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 13
- 2 Kgs 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.
- Jer 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
- 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
- Exod 22:2If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
- Isa 57:5who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Isa 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.
- Jer 7:31They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
- Ezek 16:20–21You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
- Ezek 24:7For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.
- Ps 106:37–38They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- Ezek 20:31When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!
- Jer 6:15Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
- Jer 8:12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
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