Ezekiel 24:9

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“Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.”

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BSBPD

“Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe <FI>to<Fi> the city of blood, yea, I--I make great the pile.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 24:9 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 30:33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
  2. Isaiah 31:9Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
  3. Ezekiel 21:2“Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
  4. Ezekiel 21:3and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
  5. Ezekiel 22:2“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations
  6. Ezekiel 22:19Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
  7. Ezekiel 22:31So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
  8. Ezekiel 24:5Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’
  9. Ezekiel 24:6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.
  10. Nahum 3:1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
  11. Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
  12. Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
  13. 2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  14. 2 Peter 3:7And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
  15. Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
  16. Revelation 14:20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
  17. Revelation 16:6For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
  18. Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.
  19. Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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