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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor and innocent people; and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places.
New American Standard Bible
The
You did not find them
But in spite of all these things,
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
with the blood of the innocent poor.
You did not catch them breaking and entering.
But in spite of all these things
International Standard Version
On your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, even though you didn't catch them breaking in. Yet despite all these things,
A Conservative Version
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. Thou did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.
American Standard Version
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
Amplified
“Also on your skirts is found
The lifeblood of the innocent poor;
You did not find them breaking in [a house].
But in spite of all these things [your disobedience, your love of idolatry, your lack of compassion]—
Bible in Basic English
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Darby Translation
Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but it is found upon all these.
Julia Smith Translation
Also in thy wings were found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: not by breaking in did I find them, but upon all these.
King James 2000
Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but plainly upon all these things.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Also on your skirts is found [the] blood of [the] life of [the] innocent, [the] poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these [things],
Modern King James verseion
Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; I did not find them by breaking in, but on all these.
NET Bible
Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Even in thy skirts, is there found, The blood of the lives of the helpless innocents, - Not in the act of breaking in, didst thou find them, yet the blood is on all these.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deserves To Be Punished
33 Why boastest thou thy ways so highly, to obtain favour therethrough, when thou hast yet stained them with blasphemies? 34 Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor and innocent people; and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places. 35 Yet darest thou say, 'I am guiltless: Tush, his wrath cannot come upon me.' Behold, I will reason with thee because thou darest say, 'I have not offended.'
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Cross References
2 Kings 21:16
And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings 24:4
and for the innocent blood that he shed and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not forgive.
Jeremiah 19:4
And that because they have forsaken me, and unhallowed this place, and have offered in it unto strange gods: whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known. They have filled this place also with the blood of innocents,
Exodus 22:2
If a thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him:
Psalm 106:37-38
Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Isaiah 57:5
Ye take your pleasure under the oaks, and under all green trees. And ye offer children in the valleys, and dens of stone.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels; harm and destruction are in their ways.
Jeremiah 6:15
Therefore they must be ashamed, for they have committed abomination. But how should they be ashamed, when they know nothing, neither of shame nor good nurture? And therefore they shall fall among the slain; and in the hour when I shall visit them, they shall be brought down," sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 7:31
They have also builded an altar at Tophet, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom: that they might burn their sons and daughters - which I never commanded them, neither came it ever in my thought.
Jeremiah 8:12
Fie! For shame! How abominable things do they? And yet they be not ashamed; yea, they know of no shame. Wherefore in the time of their visitation, they shall fall among the dead bodies, sayeth the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:20-21
Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine, thinkest thou,
Ezekiel 20:31
In all your idols, whereunto ye bring your oblations, and to whose honour ye burn your children: ye defile yourselves, even unto this day. How dare ye then come, and ask any question at me? O ye household of Israel: As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, ye get no answer of me.
Ezekiel 24:7
for the blood is yet in it. Upon a plain dry stone hath she poured it, and not upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.