Isa 59:3, Jer 22:17, Lam 4:13, Eze 9:9, 22:6, Mat 23:31-37, Rev 17:6 | ESV | STEP | For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity ; your lips have spoken lies ; your tongue mutters wickedness .

Isaiah 59:3

3 ^aFor your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.

Jeremiah 22:17

17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
^bfor shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”

Lamentations 4:13

13 This was for ^cthe sins of her prophets
and ^dthe iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.

Ezekiel 9:9

9 Then he said to me, ^e“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. ^fThe land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For ^gthey say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Ezekiel 22:6

6 “Behold, ^hthe princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

Matthew 23:31-37

31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are ⁱsons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 ^jFill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, ^kyou brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to ^lhell? 34 ^mTherefore ⁿI send you ^oprophets and wise men and ^pscribes, ^qsome of whom you will kill and crucify, and ^rsome you will ^sflog in your synagogues and ^tpersecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all ^uthe righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous ^vAbel to the blood of ^wZechariah the son of Barachiah, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah} whom you murdered between ^ythe sanctuary and ^zthe altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, ^aaall these things will come upon this generation.

Lament over Jerusalem

37 ^ab“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that ^ackills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have ^adgathered ^aeyour children together ^afas a hen gathers her brood ^agunder her wings, and ^ahyou were not willing!

Revelation of John 17:6

6 And I saw the woman, drunk ^aiwith the blood of the saints, the blood of ^ajthe martyrs of Jesus. ^{▼▼Greek the witnesses to Jesus}

When I saw her, I marveled greatly.