Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “’Prepare chains! For the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence. New Living Translation “Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with violence. English Standard Version “Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. Berean Standard Bible Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence. King James Bible Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. New King James Version ‘Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. New American Standard Bible ‘Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. NASB 1995 ‘Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. NASB 1977 ‘Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Legacy Standard Bible ‘Make the chain, for the land is full of judgments that promote bloodshed, and the city is full of violence. Amplified Bible ‘Prepare the chain [for imprisonment], for the land is full of bloody crimes [murders committed under the pretense of civil justice] and the city is full of violence. Christian Standard Bible Forge the chain, for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed, and the city is filled with violence. Holman Christian Standard Bible Forge the chain, for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed, and the city is filled with violence. American Standard Version Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And they shall pass by with bricks, because the land is filled with the judgment of blood, and the city is filled with evil Brenton Septuagint Translation And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity. Contemporary English Version Your whole country is in confusion! Murder and violence are everywhere in Israel, Douay-Rheims Bible Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity. English Revised Version Make the chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. GOD'S WORD® Translation "Get the chains ready! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with violence. Good News Translation "Everything is in confusion--the land is full of murders and the cities are full of violence. International Standard Version "Forge a chain, because the land is full of bloody judgment and the city is filled with violence. JPS Tanakh 1917 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Literal Standard Version Make the chain; for the land | Has been full of bloody judgments, | And the city has been full of violence. Majority Standard Bible Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence. New American Bible They will wreak slaughter, for the land is filled with bloodshed and the city with violence. NET Bible (Make the chain, because the land is full of murder and the city is full of violence.) New Revised Standard Version Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence. New Heart English Bible "Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Webster's Bible Translation Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. World English Bible “‘Make chains, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Young's Literal Translation Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Desolation of Israel…22I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it. 23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence. 24So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.… Cross References Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. Jeremiah 6:7 As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me. Jeremiah 27:2 This is what the LORD said to me: "Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck. Ezekiel 8:17 "Son of man," He said to me, "do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose! Ezekiel 9:9 He replied, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.' Ezekiel 11:6 You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead. Ezekiel 18:12 He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations. Treasury of Scripture Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. a chain Ezekiel 19:3-6 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men… Jeremiah 27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, Jeremiah 40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon. for Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. Ezekiel 11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. Ezekiel 22:3-6,9,13,27 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself… Jump to Previous Acts Blood Bloodshed Bloody Chain Chains City Crimes Desolation Full Judgments Prepare Violence ViolentJump to Next Acts Blood Bloodshed Bloody Chain Chains City Crimes Desolation Full Judgments Prepare Violence ViolentEzekiel 7 1. The final desolation of Israel16. The mournful repentance from that escape 20. The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abominations 23. Under the type of a chain is shown the miserable captivity of all orders of men (23) Make a chain.--In the midst of this plain prophecy the strong tendency of the prophet's mind still runs to the symbolic act; but this can be thought of here only as done in word. The chain is to bind captive the guilty people.Verse 23. - Make a chain; better, the chain. The word is not found elsewhere, but a kindred form is thus translated in 1 Kings 6:21. Looking to the force of the verbs from which it is formed, its special meaning is that of a coupling chain, such as would be used in the case of captives marched off to their place of exile (Nahum 3:10). All previous sufferings were to culminate in this. The φυρμόν of the LXX. and the fac conclusionem of the Vulgate show that the word perplexed them. Full of bloody crimes. The only passage in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament in which the English noun occurs. Literally, judgments of blood. The words may be equivalent either (1) to "blood guiltiness" (compare the "judgment" in Jeremiah 51:9), or (2) to judgment perverted into judicial murder. The latter finds support in Ezekiel 9:9. In either case it is noticeable that Ezekiel points not only to idolatry, but to violence and wrong, as the sins that had cried for punishment (comp. Jeremiah 22:17 as a contemporary witness). Hebrew Forgeעֲשֵׂ֖ה (‘ă·śêh) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make the chain, הָֽרַתּ֑וֹק (hā·rat·tō·wq) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7569: A chain for כִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction the land הָאָ֗רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land is full מָֽלְאָה֙ (mā·lə·’āh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of of crimes מִשְׁפַּ֣ט (miš·paṭ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style of bloodshed, דָּמִ֔ים (dā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 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 5892: Excitement is full מָלְאָ֥ה (mā·lə·’āh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of of violence. חָמָֽס׃ (ḥā·mās) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain Links Ezekiel 7:23 NIVEzekiel 7:23 NLT Ezekiel 7:23 ESV Ezekiel 7:23 NASB Ezekiel 7:23 KJV Ezekiel 7:23 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 7:23 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 7:23 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 7:23 French Bible Ezekiel 7:23 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 7:23 Make the chain (Ezek. 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