Ezekiel 35:6 “therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you…”

Ezekiel 35:6

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

World English Bible

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore as I liue, sayth the Lord God, I wil prepare thee vnto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: except thou hate blood, euen blood shall pursue thee.

Darby Translation

therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will certainly appoint thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou hast not hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.

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Cross references

“I will”

Isaiah 63:2–6 Obadiah 1:15 Revelation 18:24 Matthew 7:2 Revelation 16:5–7 Revelation 18:6

Isaiah 63:2–6 · BSB

Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

Obadiah 1:15 · BSB

For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

Revelation 18:24 · BSB

And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.

Matthew 7:2 · BSB

For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Revelation 16:5–7 · BSB

And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.

Revelation 18:6 · BSB

Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

“sith”

Psalm 109:17

Psalm 109:17 · BSB

The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

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