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Saturday, July 26th, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Lamentaciones 4:13

Es por los pecados de sus profetas, por las maldades de sus sacerdotes, Que derramaron en medio de ella la sangre de los justos.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blood;   Innocent Blood;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Murder;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Consecrate;   Evil;   God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ostrich,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lamentations, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Zechariah ben Jehoiada;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
A causa de los pecados de sus profetas y de las iniquidades de sus sacerdotes, quienes derramaron en medio de ella la sangre de los justos,
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Es por los pecados de sus profetas, por las maldades de sus sacerdotes, que derramaron en medio de ella la sangre de los justos.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Mem : Por los pecados de sus profetas, por las maldades de sus sacerdotes, que derramaron en medio de ella la sangre de los justos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the sins: Lamentations 2:14, Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 23:11-21, Ezekiel 22:26-28, Micah 3:11, Micah 3:12, Zephaniah 3:3, Zephaniah 3:4

that: Jeremiah 2:20, Jeremiah 26:8, Jeremiah 26:9, Matthew 23:31, Matthew 23:33-37, Luke 11:47-51, Acts 7:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:9 - Because 2 Chronicles 7:22 - Because they forsook Isaiah 24:2 - as with the people Isaiah 43:27 - and thy Isaiah 59:7 - and they Jeremiah 7:6 - and shed Jeremiah 8:10 - from the prophet Jeremiah 14:18 - yea Jeremiah 19:4 - filled Jeremiah 26:19 - Thus Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 44:3 - of their Lamentations 2:20 - shall the priest Lamentations 5:16 - woe Ezekiel 9:9 - and the land Ezekiel 11:6 - General Ezekiel 13:2 - prophesy against Ezekiel 22:25 - a conspiracy Ezekiel 34:3 - ye kill Hosea 4:2 - toucheth Hosea 9:8 - but Zephaniah 1:17 - because Malachi 2:1 - General Matthew 23:35 - upon Luke 13:34 - killest Hebrews 11:37 - were slain Revelation 16:6 - they have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests,.... Aben Ezra interprets this of the prophets of Baal, and the priests of the high places; but though false prophets and wicked priests are meant, yet such as were among the Jews, made choice of and approved of by them: see 2 Chronicles 36:14; not that the people were faultless, but these were the principals, who by their examples led on and encouraged the common people in sin:

that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her; not the blood of innocent children, sacrificed to them by Moloch; but of good men in general, whom they persecuted and slew; and of the true prophets of the Lord in particular, whose blood they shed; and was the sin that brought on the destruction of their city by the Romans, as well as of that by the Chaldeans; see Matthew 23:35.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The blood of the just - Jeremiah 26:7-24 exhibits priests and prophets as the prime movers in an attempt to silence the word of God by putting Jeremiah to death. Compare the margin reference to Matthew.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests — These most wretched beings, under the pretense of zeal for the true religion, persecuted the genuine prophets, priests, and people of God, and caused their blood to be shed in the midst of the city, in the most open and public manner; exactly as the murderous priests, and blood-thirsty preachers, under the reign of bloody Queen Mary, did in England. However, the profligate priests and idolatrous prophets in Jerusalem, only shed the blood of the saints of God there: but the sanguinary papists, in the above reign, burnt the blood here, for they burnt the people alive; and at the same time, in their worse than Molochean cruelty, consigned, with all the fervour peculiar to their then ruthless Church, the souls of those whom they thus massacred, to the bitter pains of eternal death! O earth, cover not thou their blood!


 
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