Ezekiel 11:6
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You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
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Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.