Jeremiah 2:34

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.

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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

33How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.

35"Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.'"Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

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Cross References

Exodus 22:1"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

2 Kings 21:16Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Psalms 106:37Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Isaiah 57:5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down," says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says 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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