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'aMake the chain, for the land is full of bbloody crimes and the city is cfull of violence.
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Ezekiel 9:9, Hosea 4:2
Ezekiel 9
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Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is afilled with blood and the city is bfull of perversion; for cthey say, 'The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!'
Hosea 4
2There isaswearing, bdeception, cmurder, dstealing and eadultery. They employ violence, so that fbloodshed follows bloodshed.