4 and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he ^mfilled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.

4 Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

23 “Forge a chain!¹ For ^zthe land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

9 Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. ^kThe land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, ^l‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’