Ezekiel 16:38
Good News Translation
I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.

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.

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!

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

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

as women [heb] with judgments of women

Ezekiel 16:40 And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.

Ezekiel 23:45-47 They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. . . .

Genesis 38:11,24 Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father's house. . . .

Leviticus 20:10 If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Deuteronomy 22:22-24 If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel. . . .

Matthew 1:18,19 Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. . . .

John 8:3-5 And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst, . . .

shed

Ezekiel 16:20,21,36 And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small? . . .

Genesis 9:6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Exodus 21:12 He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:31 You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.

Psalm 79:3-5 They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them. . . .

Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Zephaniah 1:17 And I will distress men, and they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as earth, and their bodies as dung.

Nahum 1:2 The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger, and hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is angry with his enemies.

Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.

Context
Judgment on Jerusalem
37Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou hast hated: and I will gather them together against thee on every side, and will discover thy shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy nakedness. 38And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.39And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full of disgrace.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

Psalm 79:3
They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.

Psalm 79:5
How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Ezekiel 23:24
And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments.

Ezekiel 23:25
And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire.

Ezekiel 23:45
They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Ezekiel 35:6
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.

Zephaniah 1:17
And I will distress men, and they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as earth, and their bodies as dung.

Ezekiel 16:37
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