Ezekiel 7:23
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Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.

a chain

Ezekiel 19:3-6 And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. . . .

Jeremiah 27:2 Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.

Jeremiah 40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that Nabuzardan the general had let him go from Rama, when he had taken him, being bound with chains, among all them that were carried away from Jerusalem and Juda, and were carried to Babylon.

Lamentations 3:7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

Nahum 3:10 Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.

for

Ezekiel 9:9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

Ezekiel 11:6 You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

Ezekiel 22:3-6,9,13,27 And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: This is the city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herself, to defile herself. . . .

2 Kings 21:16 Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

2 Kings 24:4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 59:3,7 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity. . . .

Jeremiah 2:34 And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before.

Jeremiah 7:6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt,

Jeremiah 22:17 But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works.

Hosea 4:2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

Micah 2:2 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

Micah 7:2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Zephaniah 3:3,4 Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning. . . .

Context
The Desolation of Israel
22And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.24And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary.…
Cross References
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.

Jeremiah 6:7
As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.

Jeremiah 27:2
Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.

Ezekiel 8:17
And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a branch to their nose.

Ezekiel 9:9
And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

Ezekiel 11:6
You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

Ezekiel 18:12
That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by violence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth up his eyes to idols, that comitteth abomination:

Ezekiel 45:9
Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God.

Hosea 4:2
Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

Lexicon
Forge
עֲשֵׂ֖ה (‘ă·śêh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

the chain,
הָֽרַתּ֑וֹק (hā·rat·tō·wq)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7569: A chain

for
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

the land
הָאָ֗רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

is full
מָֽלְאָה֙ (mā·lə·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4390: To fill, be full of

of crimes
מִשְׁפַּ֣ט (miš·paṭ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

of bloodshed,
דָּמִ֔ים (dā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

and the city
וְהָעִ֖יר (wə·hā·‘îr)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

is full
מָלְאָ֥ה (mā·lə·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4390: To fill, be full of

of violence.
חָמָֽס׃ (ḥā·mās)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain


Additional Translations
Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Make the chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.
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