Ezekiel 24:6-8

New International Reader's Version

“How terrible it will be for this city!
    It has so many murderers in it.
How terrible for the pot that is coated with scum!
    The scum on it will not go away.
Take the meat out of the pot piece by piece.
    Take it out in whatever order it comes.

⁷ “The blood Jerusalem’s people spilled is inside its walls.
    They poured it out on a bare rock.
They did not pour it on the ground.
    If they had, dust would have covered it up.
⁸ So I put their blood on the bare rock.
    I did not want it to be covered up.
I poured out my great anger on them.
    I paid them back.”