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

He answered me: "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity. For they say: The LORD has abandoned the land; He does not see.

You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with the dead.

Then God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin he caused Judah to commit so that they did what was evil in the LORD's sight.

and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not forgive.

As a well gushes out its water, so she pours forth her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her. Sickness and wounds keep coming to My attention.

because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

For whenever I speak, I cry out-- I proclaim: Violence and destruction! because the word of the LORD has become for me constant disgrace and derision.

The people are incapable of doing right-- the LORD's declaration-- those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.

You dismiss any thought of the evil day and bring in a reign of violence.

They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.

On that day I will punish all who skip over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.