Ezekiel 16:38

Ezekiel 16:38 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
• New International Version (NIV)I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.

Context of Ezekiel 16:38

36This is what the Lord God says: “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene practices with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to idols, 37therefore, behold, I am going to gather all your lovers whom you pleased, all those whom you loved as well as all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them so that they may see all your nakedness. So I will judge you as women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare. 40They will incite a crowd against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Ezekiel 16:38 word by word

וּשְׁפַטְתִּיךְ֙ מִשְׁפְּטֵ֣י נֹאֲפ֔וֹת וְשֹׁפְכֹ֖ת דָּ֑ם וּנְתַתִּ֕יךְ דַּ֥ם חֵמָ֖ה וְקִנְאָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• judgeשָׁפַטshâphaţ · to judgeH8199
• you as women who commitנָאַףnâ'aph · to commit adulteryH5003
• or shedשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: killH8210
• bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• are judgedמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
• and I will bringנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• wrathחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• and jealousyקִנְאָהqin'âh · jealousyH7068

Cross-references for Ezekiel 16:38

• Ezekiel 16:40They will incite a crowd against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
• Ezekiel 23:45But they, righteous people, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
• Genesis 38:11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”; for he thought, “I am afraid that he too may die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
• Leviticus 20:10‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
• Deuteronomy 22:22“If a man is found sleeping with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who slept with the woman, and the woman; so you shall eliminate the evil from Israel.
• Matthew 1:18Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
• John 8:3Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of adultery, and after placing her in the center of the courtyard,
• Ezekiel 16:20“Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter?
• Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made mankind.
• Exodus 21:12“He who strikes someone so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.
• Numbers 35:31Moreover, you shall not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is condemned to death, but he must be put to death.
• Psalms 79:3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem; And there was no one to bury them.
• Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, give their children over to famine And turn them over to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be slaughtered to death, Their young men struck and killed by the sword in battle.
• Zephaniah 1:17I will bring distress on mankind So that they will walk like those who are blind, Because they have sinned against the Lord; And their blood will be poured out like dust, And their flesh like dung.
• Nahum 1:2A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; The Lord is avenging and wrathful. The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies.
• Revelation 16:6for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it.”

Commentaries on Ezekiel 16:38

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 35-43Verses 35-43 Judah is now represented as undergoing the punishment adjudged to an adulteress and murderess. Only in her utter destruction shall the wrath of the Lord, the jealous God, cease. Ezekiel 16:36 Filthiness - Or, brass, i. e., money, is lavished. The Hebrews generally speak of money as gold Isaiah 46:6, but brass coins were not unknown in the time of the Maccabees. Compare Matthew 10:9; Mark 12:41. Ezekiel may here have put brass for gold…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 35-38Because Jerusalem acted like an unfaithful spouse, it was appropriate for her to face a similar punishment. God would symbolically strip her of her dignity, reversing the marriage metaphor of being clothed (see Ezekiel 16:8; Hosea 2:2–3). Then the people would stone her (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22). Since this would cover her naked body with blood, she would leave the world just as she came into it. This metaphor was fulfilled when the Babylonians…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 38-4038-40. judge thee, as women that break wedlock--(Le 20:10; compare Eze 16:2). In the case of individual adulteresses, stoning was the penalty (Joh 8:4, 5). In the case of communities, the sword. Also apostasy (De 13:10) and sacrificing children to Molech (Le 20:1-5) incurred stoning. Thus the penalty was doubly due to Israel; so the other which was decreed against an apostate city (De 13:15, 16) is added, "they shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee…Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 16:38

• Adultery
• Blood
• High Places
• Lasciviousness

In the dictionaries

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings