Lamentations 4:13 “But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests…”

Lamentations 4:13

But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

World English Bible

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

American Standard Version

It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Geneva Bible 1599

For the sinnes of her Prophets, and the iniquities of her Priests, that haue shed the blood of the iust in the middes of her.

Darby Translation

[It is] for the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the righteous in the midst of her.

Young's Literal Translation

Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

Bible in Basic English

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

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Cross references

“the sins”

Jeremiah 5:31 Jeremiah 6:13 Lamentations 2:14 Ezekiel 22:26–28 Jeremiah 14:14 Jeremiah 23:11–21

Jeremiah 5:31 · BSB

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 6:13 · BSB

“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

Lamentations 2:14 · BSB

The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

Ezekiel 22:26–28 · BSB

Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that…

Jeremiah 14:14 · BSB

“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of th…

Jeremiah 23:11–21 · BSB

“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.

“that”

Matthew 23:31 Jeremiah 2:20 Matthew 23:33–37 Luke 11:47–51 Acts 7:52 Jeremiah 26:8

Matthew 23:31 · BSB

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Jeremiah 2:20 · BSB

“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Matthew 23:33–37 · BSB

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Luke 11:47–51 · BSB

Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

Acts 7:52 · BSB

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Jeremiah 26:8 · BSB

and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

14They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

Read Lamentations 4