Ezekiel 16:38
New International Version
I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.

New Living Translation
I will punish you for your murder and adultery. I will cover you with blood in my jealous fury.

English Standard Version
And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Berean Standard Bible
And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.

King James Bible
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

New King James Version
And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.

New American Standard Bible
So I will judge you as women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

NASB 1995
“Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

NASB 1977
“Thus I shall judge you, like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Amplified Bible
And I [the Lord GOD] will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Christian Standard Bible
I will judge you the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged. Then I will bring about the shedding of your blood in jealous wrath.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will judge you the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged. Then I will bring about your bloodshed in wrath and jealousy.

American Standard Version
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall judge you with the sentence of an adulteress and a sentence of those who shed blood, and I shall give you to blood and to anger and to jealousy

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I will be avenged on thee with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon thee blood of fury and jealousy.

Contemporary English Version
I will find you guilty of being an unfaithful wife and a murderer, and in my fierce anger I will sentence you to a violent death!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

English Revised Version
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of fury and jealousy.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will punish you the same way that those who are guilty of prostitution and murder are punished. I will give you the death penalty in my fury and burning anger.

Good News Translation
I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.

International Standard Version
I'll judge you with the same standards by which I issue verdicts against a woman who commits adultery and murder. I'll avenge the blood you've shed with impassioned wrath.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of fury and jealousy.

Literal Standard Version
And I have judged you—judgments of adultresses, | And of women shedding blood, | And have given you blood, fury, and jealousy.

Majority Standard Bible
And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.

New American Bible
I will inflict on you the sentence of adultery and murder; I will bring on you bloody wrath and jealous anger.

NET Bible
I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage.

New Revised Standard Version
I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring blood upon you in wrath and jealousy.

New Heart English Bible
I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

World English Bible
I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have judged thee -- judgments of adulteresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.

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Context
Judgment on Jerusalem
37therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked. 38And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy. 39Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Psalm 79:3
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

Psalm 79:5
How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Ezekiel 23:24
They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.

Ezekiel 23:25
And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be consumed by fire.

Ezekiel 23:45
But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.


Treasury of Scripture

And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.

as women [heb] with judgments of women

Ezekiel 16:40
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Ezekiel 23:45-47
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands…

Genesis 38:11,24
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house…

shed

Ezekiel 16:20,21,36
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, …

Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
60. Mercy is promised her in the end














(38) Women that break wedlock and shed blood.--Under the Mosaic law the penalty for adultery was death (Leviticus 20:10), and the same penalty also was attached to the devotion of "seed to Moloch" (Leviticus 20:1-5), and to murder (Exodus 21:12). The Jewish method of capital punishment on individuals was by stoning (see Leviticus 20:2, and comp. John 8:5), and of punishing an apostate city was by the sword (Deuteronomy 13:15). Hence both modes are mentioned together in Ezekiel 16:40, though somewhat at the expense of the consistency of the allegory. The last clause would be more exactly translated, "I will make thee blood of fury and jealousy," the fury referring to the avenging of murder, and the jealousy to the punishment of adultery, each requiring the life, or blood, of the offender. . . . Verse 38. - The bloodshed may refer, as in ver. 36, to the Moloch sacrifices, or may include also other crimea, assassinations and judicial murders (Jeremiah 2:34). Strictly speaking, the punishment of the adulteress was death by stoning (Leviticus 20:2, 10; Deuteronomy 21:21; Deuteronomy 22:21; John 8:5). Did Ezekiel think of the stones cast against the city from the catapult engines of the Chahleans as a literal counterpart of that punishment? In the last clause read, with the Revised Version, I will bring upon thee the blood of fury and jealousy; sc. the death which was inflicted by the indignation of Jehovah as the Husband against whom Judah had sinned.

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Hebrew
And I will sentence you
וּשְׁפַטְתִּיךְ֙ (ū·šə·p̄aṭ·tîḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

to the punishment
מִשְׁפְּטֵ֣י (miš·pə·ṭê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

of women who commit adultery
נֹאֲפ֔וֹת (nō·’ă·p̄ō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 5003: To commit adultery, to apostatize

and those who shed
וְשֹׁפְכֹ֖ת (wə·šō·p̄ə·ḵōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural construct
Strong's 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out

blood;
דָּ֑ם (dām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

so I will bring upon you
וּנְתַתִּ֕יךְ (ū·nə·ṯat·tîḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

the wrath
חֵמָ֖ה (ḥê·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2534: Heat, anger, poison

of your bloodshed
דַּ֥ם (dam)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

and jealousy.
וְקִנְאָֽה׃ (wə·qin·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7068: Ardor, zeal, jealousy


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