New Revised Standard Version
Then they cried aloud and, as was their custom, they cut themselves with swords and lances until the blood gushed out over them.

Contemporary English Version
The prophets kept shouting louder and louder, and they cut themselves with swords and knives until they were bleeding. This was the way they worshiped,

New American Bible
They called out louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears according to their ritual until blood gushed over them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.

So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.

cut themselves

Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 14:1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

Micah 6:7 May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Mark 5:5 And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

Mark 9:22 And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having compassion on us.

the blood gushed out upon them.