Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.
New American Standard Bible
‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
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I also will make the pile great.
King James Version
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Holman Bible
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:
I Myself will make the pile of kindling large.
International Standard Version
"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "How terrible it is for that blood-filled city I'm also going to add to my pile of kindling.
A Conservative Version
Therefore thus says lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
American Standard Version
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
Amplified
‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Woe to the bloody city!
I will also make the pile [of wood] high.
Darby Translation
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
Julia Smith Translation
For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo to the city of bloods! I will make her pile great
King James 2000
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe [to] the city of bloodguilt! I, even I, will make the pile of wood great!
Modern King James verseion
So the Lord Jehovah says this: Woe to the bloody city! I will even heap on the pile.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: O woe be unto that bloodthirsty city, for whom I will prepare a heap of wood.
NET Bible
"'Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.
New Heart English Bible
"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Woe to the bloody city. I also will make the pile great.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed, - Even I myself, will make large the pe.
Webster
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
World English Bible
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
Youngs Literal Translation
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the city of blood, yea, I -- I make great the pile.
Themes
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Employs a boiling pot to symbolize the destruction of jerusalem
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 24:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Boiling Pot And The Death Of Ezekiel's Wife
8 In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered. 9 For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass. 10 Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 30:33
For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.
Ezekiel 24:6
For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.
Habakkuk 2:12
A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
Isaiah 31:9
And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:19-22
For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:31
And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.
Nahum 3:1
A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.
Luke 13:34-35
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
2 Thessalonians 1:8
To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
2 Peter 3:7-12
But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Revelation 14:20
And the grapes were crushed under foot outside the town, and blood came out from them, even to the head-bands of the horses, two hundred miles.
Revelation 16:6
For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.
Revelation 16:19
And the great town was cut into three parts, and the towns of the nations came to destruction: and Babylon the great came into mind before God, to be given the cup of the wine of his wrath.
Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.