Ezekiel 33:25
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Context
This verse from Ezekiel Chapter 33 connects to 10 cross-references. Renewal of Ezekiel's watchman commission as the news of Jerusalem's fall arrives. The principle of individual responsibility is repeated: turn from your wicked ways for why should you die? Those remaining in the land think they will inherit the land …
Other Translations
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: With the blood ye do eat, And your eyes ye lift up unto your idols, And blood ye shed, and the land ye inherit!
For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?
Cross References
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your …
Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth …
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said …
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the …
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: …