Jeremiah 2:34

and in thine hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.

Brenton Septuagint

In The 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.

In Context

33What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou hast done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;

35Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:1And if the thief be found in the breach made by himself and be smitten and die, there shall not be blood shed for him.

2 Kings 21:16Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem with it + 21:16 Gr. mouth to mouth.from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Juda to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Psalms 106:37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and they yield fruit of increase.

Isaiah 57:5who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying + 57:5 Gr. their.your children in the valleys among the rocks?

Jeremiah 6:15They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:30-37

Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord . 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord . Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people… Read the whole commentary →

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