## the Word of Yahweh came to me and said ##

See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 3:16](../03/16.md).

## Son of man ##

See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 2:1](../02/01.md).

## the house of Israel ##

See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 3:1](../03/01.md).

## with their ways and deeds ##

"by the way they lived and the things they did"

## Their ways were like the unclean menstruation of a woman before me ##

"Their ways were as disgusting to me as the unclean menstruation of a woman"

## menstruation of a woman ##

the blood that comes out of a woman every month when she is not pregnant

## I poured out my fury against them ##

"I did things to them that showed how angry I was."

## for the blood that they poured out on the land ##

AT: "because they made the blood of many people spill onto the land" or "because they murdered many people." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## and for their pollution of it by their idols ##

"and because they defiled the land with their idols"