A moment in scripture
Ezekiel 35:6
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.
The surrounding passage
- Ezekiel 35:4
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 35:5
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
- Ezekiel 35:7
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
- Ezekiel 35:8
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.