Jeremiah 2:34

³² Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

³³ Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

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.

³⁵ Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

³⁶ Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of 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 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.
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2 Kings 24:4
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
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Jeremiah 19:4
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
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Exodus 22:2
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
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Isaiah 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
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Ezekiel 16:20–21
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
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Jeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
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