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 21:32

21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –

your blood will stain the middle of the land; ¹ 

you will no longer be remembered,

for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

Ezekiel 22:9

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. ²  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; ³  they commit obscene acts among you. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 22:27

22:27 Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey – shedding blood and destroying lives – so they can get dishonest profit.

Ezekiel 23:45

23:45 But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, ⁵  because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

Ezekiel 24:7-8

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.

24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,

I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

Ezekiel 36:18

36:18 So I poured my anger on them ⁶  because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 39:19

39:19 You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, ⁸  at my slaughter ⁹  which I have made for you.

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¹ tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”

² tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

³ tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn Heb “and upright men will judge them (with) the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of those who shed blood.”

⁶ sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.

⁷ sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.

⁸ sn Eating the fat and drinking blood were God’s exclusive rights in Israelite sacrifices (Lev 3:17).

⁹ tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).