Jeremiah 2:34
Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocent persons: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
33Why trim you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.
Cross References
Exodus 22:1If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 Kings 21:16Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Psalms 106:37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Isaiah 57:5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that 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? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that 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 →