Ezekiel 35:6
Good News Translation
So then--as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God--death is your fate, and you cannot escape it. You are guilty of murder, and murder will follow you.

New Revised Standard Version
therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed shall pursue you.

Contemporary English Version
And so, as surely as I am the living LORD God, you are guilty of murder and must be put to death.

New American Bible
therefore, as I live—oracle of the Lord GOD—you are guilty of blood, and blood, I swear, shall pursue you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.

I will

Psalm 109:16 because he remembered not to shew mercy,

Isaiah 63:2-6 Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that tread in the winepress? . . .

Obadiah 1:15 Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee: and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of tribulation.

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Revelation 16:5-7 And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things. . . .

Revelation 18:6,24 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her. . . .

Revelation 19:2,3 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands. . . .

sith

Psalm 109:17 But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

Context
A Prophecy Against Mount Seir
5Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity. 6Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.7And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.…
Cross References
Isaiah 34:3
Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Isaiah 63:2
Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that tread in the winepress?

Ezekiel 16:38
And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

Ezekiel 32:6
And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.

Ezekiel 35:7
And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.

Ezekiel 35:5
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