Ezekiel 35:6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

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Isaiah 34:3
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Isaiah 63:2
Why are you red in your apparel, and your garments like him that treads in the winefat?

Ezekiel 16:38
And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.

Ezekiel 32:6
I will also water with your blood the land wherein you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you.

Ezekiel 35:7
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passes out and him that returns.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

35:1-9 All who have God against them, have the word of God against them. Those that have a constant hatred to God and his people, as the carnal mind has, can only expect to be made desolate for ever.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. I will prepare thee unto blood—I will expose thee to slaughter.

sith—old English for "seeing that" or "since."

thou hast not hated blood—The Hebrew order is, "thou hast hated not—blood"; that is, thou couldst not bear to live without bloodshed [Grotius]. There is a play on similar sounds in the Hebrew; Edom resembling dam, the Hebrew for "blood"; as "Edom" means "red," the transition to "blood" is easy. Edom, akin to blood in name, so also in nature and acts; "blood therefore shall pursue thee." The measure which Edom meted to others should be meted to himself (Ps 109:17; Mt 7:2; 26:52).