🔥WEB · Ezekiel 24:8
What does Ezekiel 24:8 mean?
"That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.”"
— Ezekiel 24:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron. Make it boil well. Yes, let its bones be boiled within it.”
“‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.
“‘“For her blood is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.”
“‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
Heap on the wood. Make the fire hot. Boil the meat well. Make the broth thick, and let the bones be burned.
Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed.
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