Ezekiel 16:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And I, who am thy Lord and Husband, whose authority and kindness thou hast so contemned and abused, will judge thee; both condemn thee to suffer what thou deservest, and execute what thou art condemned to; as women that break wedlock, who were sometimes strangled, sometimes stoned, sometimes burnt, were put to death to be sure, Leviticus 20:10 Deuteronomy 22:22. It may intimate the future destruction of her adulterous lovers, for both the adulterer and adulteress were to die. Site was guilty of the unnatural murder of her children, and God will, according to his own law, Genesis 9:5,6 Num 35:31,32, cause her blood to be shed. Will give thee blood; the like phrase you have Revelation 16:6, and elsewhere; the like judgment is expressed by watering the land with blood, as Ezekiel 32:6, and by preparing one for blood, Ezekiel 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. In fury and jealousy; passions that do usually appear in the revenges that abused husbands take on their wives which have intolerably dishonoured and wronged them; and God expresseth his great indignation, and the severity of his just displeasure, by allusion hereunto.