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.
Ver. 38. And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock.] See Leviticus 20:10 Deuteronomy 22:22. The Egyptians cut off the harlot's nose, and the adulterer's privy members; the Romans beheaded them; the old Germans whipped them through the streets; Canutus, the Danish king in this land, banished them; Tenedius, a king in another land, did cut them in sunder with an axe; by our laws they are to be hanged, as by the Jews' laws to be stoned. Eze 16:40
And shed blood.] See Ezekiel 16:35 .
I will give thee blood.] God loveth to retaliate.