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Lamentations Chapter 4 verse 13 Holy Bible

ASV Lamentations 4:13

`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.
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BBE Lamentations 4:13

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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DARBY Lamentations 4:13

[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.
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KJV Lamentations 4:13

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,
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WBT Lamentations 4:13

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WEB Lamentations 4:13

[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.
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YLT Lamentations 4:13

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - For the sins of her prophets, etc. Instead of connecting this verse by a comma with the following, we should rather view it as a unit in itself, and understand at the beginning, "All this hath happened" The sins of the prophets and priests are mentioned together by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 23:11), as well as by Isaiah (Isaiah 28:7). But we are nowhere else told that the spiritual leaders of the people, in these closing years of the Jewish state, were guilty of shedding innocent blood, unless this is to be inferred from the incident related in Jeremiah 26:7, etc.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) That have shed the blood of the just . . .--The words point to incidents like the death of Zechariah the son of Jehoiada (2Chronicles 24:21); the "innocent blood" shed by Manasseh (2Kings 21:16); the attempts on Jeremiah's own life (Jeremiah 26:7); possibly to some unrecorded atrocities during the siege on the part of the priests and false prophets, who looked on the true prophets as traitors (Jeremiah 26:23).