Ezekiel 35:6
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, even blood shall pursue you.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will make you a land of bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
therefore, as I live,{H2416} saith{H5002} the Lord{H136} Jehovah,{H3069} I will prepare{H6213} thee unto blood,{H1818} and blood{H1818} shall pursue{H7291} thee: since{H518} thou hast not hated{H8130} blood,{H1818} therefore blood{H1818} shall pursue{H7291} thee.
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Therefore, as I live{H2416}, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the Lord{H136} GOD{H3069}, I will prepare{H6213}{(H8799)} thee unto blood{H1818}, and blood{H1818} shall pursue{H7291}{(H8799)} thee: sith{H518} thou hast not hated{H8130}{(H8804)} blood{H1818}, even blood{H1818} shall pursue{H7291}{(H8799)} thee.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore, as truly as I lyue (saieth ye LORDE God) I wil prepare the vnto bloude, yee bloude shal folowe vpon the: seinge thou layest waite for bloude, therfore shall bloude persecute the.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Therefore as I liue, sayth the Lorde God, I wil prepare thee vnto blood, and blood shal pursue thee: except thou hate blood, euen blood shal pursue thee.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Therefore as truely as I lyue, saith the Lorde God, I wyll prepare thee vnto blood, yea blood shall folowe vpon thee, except thou hate blood, euen blood shall persecute thee.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
Webster's Bible (1833)
therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee.
American Standard Version (1901)
therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.
American Standard Version (1901)
therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.
World English Bible (2000)
therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
Referenced Verses
- Isa 63:2-6 : 2 Why are you red in your apparel, and your garments like one who treads in the winepress? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people, there was none with me: for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my clothing. 4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. 5 And I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation for me; and my fury, it upheld me. 6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
- Rev 18:24 : 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.
- Rev 19:2-3 : 2 For true and righteous are His judgments: for He has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Hallelujah. And her smoke rose up forever and ever.
- Ps 109:16-17 : 16 Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the brokenhearted. 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
- Obad 1:15 : 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: as you have done, it shall be done to you; your recompense shall return upon your own head.
- Matt 7:2 : 2 For with the same judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you again.
- Rev 16:5-7 : 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, You are righteous, O Lord, who are, and were, and shall be, because you have judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another from the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.
- Rev 18:6 : 6 Repay her even as she repaid you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled, fill to her double.
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5 Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
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11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have used out of your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them, when I have judged you.
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7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him who passes out and him who returns.
8 And I will fill its mountains with its slain men: in your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your rivers, shall they fall who are slain with the sword.
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6 I will also water with your blood the land where you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you.
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19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; As I live, surely my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken, I will recompense on his own head.
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17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: those that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.
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8 That it might cause fury to come up and take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
9 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pyre large.
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13 Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.
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25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
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11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.
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38 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.
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6 Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him; though he was not worthy of death, since he did not hate him in time past.
- Ezek 7:8-92 verses73%
8 Now I will shortly pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you; and I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations.
9 And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes.
- Ezek 5:8-92 verses73%
8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do in you what I have not done, and the like of which I will not do anymore, because of all your abominations.
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31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
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7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron: but I will bring you forth out of its midst.
8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord GOD.
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6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.
- Ezek 7:3-42 verses73%
3 Now the end has come upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations.
4 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity: but I will repay your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
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33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
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6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
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19 The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.
20 But if he pushes him out of hatred, or hurls at him by lying in wait so that he dies;
21 Or in enmity strikes him with his hand, so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meets him.
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12 Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.
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18 Therefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols with which they had polluted it:
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59 For thus says the Lord GOD; I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
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6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
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10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
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22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
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31 Therefore have I poured out My indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says the Lord GOD.
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12 He who is far off shall die of pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
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8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
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21 But as for those whose hearts follow the hearts of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, says the Lord GOD.
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3 And say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
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19 Surely You will slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
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18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
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6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live.
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13 Therefore I will make you sick by striking you, making you desolate because of your sins.
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42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenge upon the enemy.
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4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore I have made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
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36 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them:
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28 For thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of those you hate, into the hand of those from whom your mind is alienated: