Because the Lord God saith thus, Woe to the bloody city, even to the pot, [a]whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it: bring it out [b]piece by piece: let no [c]lot fall upon it.

For her blood is in the midst of her: she set it upon an high [d]rock, and poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust,

That it might cause wrath to arise, and take vengeance: even I have set her blood upon an high rock that it should not be covered.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:6 Whose iniquities and wicked citizens there yet remain.
  2. Ezekiel 24:6 Signifying that they should not be destroyed all at once, but by little and little.
  3. Ezekiel 24:6 Spare none estate or condition.
  4. Ezekiel 24:7 The city showed her cruelty to all the world, and was not ashamed thereof, neither yet hid it.

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