They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Parallel translations
- KJV They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- BSB who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- NKJV Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity:
- NASB Who build Zion with bloodshed, And Jerusalem with malice.
- NLT You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Hab 2:9–12Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
- Jer 22:13–17“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
- Matt 27:25All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”
- Ezek 22:25–28There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many within it.
- Zeph 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
- John 11:50nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
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