Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:38

38 And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury, and jealousie.

Who am thy Lord and Husband, whose Authority and kindness thou hast so contemned and abus'd.

Both condemn thee to suffer what thou deservest, and execute what thou art condemned to.

Who were sometimes strangled, sometimes stoned, sometimes burnt, were put to death to be sure. Lev. 20.10. and Deut. 22. ver. 22. It may intimate the future destruction of her Adulterous Lovers, for both the Adulterer and Adulteress were to dy.

She was guilty of the unnatural murther of her Children, and God will according to his own Law, Gen. 9.5, 6. and Numb. 35.31, 32. cause her blood to be shed.

The like phrase you have Revel. 16.6. and elsewhere; the like judgment is exprest by watering the Land with blood, as Chap 32.6. and by preparing one for blood. Chap. 35.6. thou gavest the blood of thy Children to Idols in Sacrifice, I will give thee thine own blood to drink, thou didst it in contempt of my Law, I will do it in vindication of my Law.

Passions that do usually appear in the revenges, that abused Husbands take on their Wives, which have intolerably dishonour'd and wrong'd them, and God expresseth his great indignation, and the severity of his just displeasure by allusion hereunto.

Marginal references: Heb. with judgment of.