Ezekiel 24:7
What does Ezekiel 24:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 24:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890for her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
Context
v.6Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.
v.7This passage
v.8That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
- Jeremiah 2:34
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
- Job 16:18
O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have noresting-place.
- Jeremiah 6:15
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
- Isaiah 3:9
The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.
- Leviticus 17:13
And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who taketh in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
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