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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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ASV

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

KJV

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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24 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יַ֣עַן׀Ya.'anbecauseH3282 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherthatH834 →
עֲזָבֻ֗נִי'a.za.Vu.nithey have forsaken meH5800 →
וַֽיְנַכְּר֞וּvay.na.ke.Ruand they have treated as foreignH5234 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הַמָּק֤וֹםha.ma.Komthe placeH4725 →
הַזֶּה֙ha.Zeh<the> thisH2088 →
וַיְקַטְּרוּ־vay.ka.te.ru-and they have made smokeH6999 →
בוֹ֙voin <the> it
לֵאלֹהִ֣יםle.lo.Himto godsH430 →
אֲחֵרִ֔ים'a.che.RimotherH312 →
אֲשֶׁ֧ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808 →
יְדָע֛וּםye.da.'Umthey knew themH3045 →
הֵ֥מָּהHe.mahtheyH1992 →
וַאֲבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֖םva.'a.vo.tei.Hemand ancestors theirH1 →
וּמַלְכֵ֣יu.mal.Kheiand [the] kings ofH4428 →
יְהוּדָ֑הye.hu.DahJudahH3063 →
וּמָֽלְא֛וּu.mal.'Uand they have filledH4390 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הַמָּק֥וֹםha.ma.Komthe placeH4725 →
הַזֶּ֖הha.Zeh<the> thisH2088 →
דַּ֥םdam[the] blood ofH1818 →
נְקִיִּֽם׃ne.ki.Yiminnocent [ones]H5355 →

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Jeremiah 2:34Moreover, 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 thingsJeremiah 1:16I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.Isaiah 65:11But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,Deuteronomy 28:20The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.2 Kings 21:16Moreover, 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.Jeremiah 7:9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,Deuteronomy 32:15–23But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.Daniel 9:5–15we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.Jeremiah 11:13Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?2 Kings 21:4–7Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”2 Kings 24:4and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.Jeremiah 7:6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,Lamentations 4:13But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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