Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land,.... Or the plague, which is the destruction that wastes at noon day; this is from the Lord, and a sore judgment it is:
and pour out my fury upon it in blood; or, "by blood" y; by corrupting the blood, which is done when a man is seized with the pestilence. The Targum renders it, "with slaughter"; by slaying a great number of persons by that disease, as a token of fury and wrath, because of their transgressions. It may be rendered, "because of blood" z; and so express the cause and reason of the judgment, the shedding of innocent blood:
to cut off from it man and beast; man by the pestilence, and beast by some contagious distemper or another.
y בדם "per sanguinem", Piscator. z "Propter sanguinem", Vatablus.