“‘ Prepare chains! For the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

“要制造锁链；因为这地遍满流血的罪，城邑充满强暴的事。

“要制造锁链；因为遍地都有流血的罪，满城都是残暴的事。

“要制造锁链；因为遍地都有流血的罪，满城都是残暴的事。

“你要预备锁链，因为这地方充满了血腥的罪恶，城里充斥着暴行。

你要制造锁链，因为这地满了血腥（“血腥”或译：“流血的审判”），这城满了强暴。

「要製造鎖鍊；因為這地遍滿流血的罪，城邑充滿強暴的事。

「要製造鎖鏈；因為遍地都有流血的罪，滿城都是殘暴的事。

「要製造鎖鏈；因為遍地都有流血的罪，滿城都是殘暴的事。

「你要預備鎖鏈，因為這地方充滿了血腥的罪惡，城裡充斥著暴行。

你要製造鎖鍊，因為這地滿了血腥（“血腥”或譯：“流血的審判”），這城滿了強暴。

肆行搗亂。『因為這地遍滿了流人血的案件，這城充滿了強暴的事，

當作鏈索、蓋流血之罪盈於斯土、殘暴充乎其邑、

斯土之民、尚殺戮、行刧奪、遍於邑郊、故當作鐵索。以為被擄之兆、

當作鐵索、因斯地滿以殺人流血之罪、邑充以強暴之事、

“‘ Ezekiel, get ready to put my people in chains. The land is full of murderers. They are harming one another all over Jerusalem.

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

“ Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with violence.

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

‘ Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

‘ Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence.

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

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

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

( Make the chain, because the land is full of murder and the city is full of violence.)

“‘ Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

This is what the Lord said to me:“ Make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck.

He answered me,“ The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say,‘ The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’

Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end— besides the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.

and say:‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols,you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.“‘ See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.

He said to me,“ Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose!

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!

The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.

For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things.

“ But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”

On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this

“‘ I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.

Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.

Yet she was taken captive and went into exile. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were put in chains.

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.Her prophets are unprincipled; they are treacherous people. Her priests profane the sanctuary and do violence to the law.

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

including the shedding of innocent blood. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.

if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man- eater.The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.“‘ When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man- eater.

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.

The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had released him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the captives from Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried into exile to Babylon.