Jeremiah 2:34

Sin

³² Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

³³ How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

³⁵ you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

³⁶ How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
KJV: 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.
WEB: Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.
ASV: Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
DARBY: Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but [it is found] upon all these.
BLB: “Also on your skirts is found the blood of innocent needy souls—[and] not breaking in did you find them! But in spite of all these things,

ÅB: Det finnes endog blod av uskyldige fattigfolk på dine kjortelfliker; du grep dem ikke i innbrudd[^7], men på grunn av alt dette var det[^8].
OTB: På dine klær finnes blodet av de uskyldige fattige, selv om du ikke tok dem på fersk gjerning. Likevel,
B1930: Det finnes endog blod av uskyldige fattigfolk på dine kjortelfliker; du grep dem ikke i innbrudd, men på grunn av alt dette var det. / < 2MO 22, 2.> / < d.e. på grunn av dette ditt ugudelige vesen (JER 2, 23 fg.) utøste du deres blod.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

2 Kings 21:16
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Kings 24:4
and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
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Jeremiah 19:4
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
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Exodus 22:2
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
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Isaiah 57:5
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
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Ezekiel 16:20–21
You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
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Jeremiah 7:31
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
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