Ezekiel 5:17

5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. ¹  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, ²  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 14:19

14:19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

Ezekiel 16:22

16:22 And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood.

Ezekiel 18:13

18:13 engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. ³  He will bear the responsibility for his own death. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 21:32

21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –

your blood will stain the middle of the land; ⁵ 

you will no longer be remembered,

for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

Ezekiel 22:3

22:3 Then say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), ⁶  and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),

Ezekiel 22:9

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. ⁷  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; ⁸  they commit obscene acts among you. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 22:12

22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; ¹⁰  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, ¹¹  declares the sovereign Lord. ¹² 

Ezekiel 23:37

23:37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, ¹³  they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 24:7

24:7 For her blood was in it;

she poured it on an exposed rock;

she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

Ezekiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ¹⁵  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ¹⁶  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:4-5

33:4 but there is one who hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning. Then the sword comes and sweeps him away. He will be responsible for his own death. ¹⁷  33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, so he is responsible for himself. ¹⁸  If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved his life.

Ezekiel 33:8

33:8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you must certainly die,’ ¹⁹  and you do not warn ²⁰  the wicked about his behavior, ²¹  the wicked man will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death. ²² 

Ezekiel 39:18

39:18 You will eat the flesh of warriors ²³  and drink the blood of the princes of the earth – the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.

Ezekiel 43:20

43:20 You will take some of its blood, and place it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around; you will cleanse it and make atonement for it. ²⁴ 

Ezekiel 45:19

45:19 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.

[5:17]  ¹ tn Heb “will bereave you.”

[5:17]  ² tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

[18:13]  ³ tn Heb “be put to death.” The translation follows an alternative reading that appears in several ancient textual witnesses.

[18:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “his blood will be upon him.”

[21:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”

[22:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “her time”; this refers to the time of impending judgment (see the note on “doom” in v. 4).

[22:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

[22:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

[22:9]  ¹¹ sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.

[22:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

[22:12]  ¹² sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.

[22:12]  ¹³ tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.

[23:37]  ¹³ sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.

[23:37]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they have passed to them for food.” The verb is commonly taken to refer to passing children through fire, especially as an offering to the pagan god Molech. See Jer 32:35.

[28:23]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

[33:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “his blood will be on his own head.”

[33:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “his blood will be on him.”

[33:8]  ²¹ tn The same expression occurs in Gen 2:17.

[33:8]  ²² tn Heb “and you do not speak to warn.”

[33:8]  ²³ tn Heb “way.”

[33:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and his blood from your hand I will seek.”

[39:18]  ²³ sn See Rev 19:17-18.

[43:20]  ²⁵ sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.