Ezekiel 24:9
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New International Version (©2011)
"'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the wood high.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: What sorrow awaits Jerusalem, the city of murderers! I myself will pile up the fuel beneath her.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I Myself will make the pile of kindling large.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"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.

NET Bible (©2006)
"'Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
" 'This is what the Almighty LORD says: How horrible it will be for that city of murderers. I, too, will pile the wood high.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

American King James Version
Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

American Standard Version
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, of which I will make a great bonfire.

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

English Revised Version
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the city of blood, yea, I -- I make great the pile.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:1-14 The pot on the fire represented Jerusalem besieged by the Chaldeans: all orders and ranks were within the walls, prepared as a prey for the enemy. They ought to have put away their transgressions, as the scum, which rises by the heat of the fire, is taken from the top of the pot. But they grew worse, and their miseries increased. Jerusalem was to be levelled with the ground. The time appointed for the punishment of wicked men may seem to come slowly, but it will come surely. It is sad to think how many there are, on whom ordinances and providences are all lost.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - We return to the image of the cauldron, and once again, as in Ver. 6 and Ezekiel 22:3 and Ezekiel 23:37, we have the words which Nahum (Nahum 3:1) had used of Nineveh applied to Jerusalem.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, woe to the bloody city,.... See Gill on Ezekiel 24:6,

I will even make the pile for fire great; a large pile of wood, a great quantity of fuel to maintain the fire, and keep the pot boiling; meaning the vast army of the Chaldeans, which the Lord would bring against Jerusalem, which should closely besiege it, and vigorously attack it, until it had executed the fury of the wrath of God, comparable to fire, and of his judgments upon it. The Targum is,

"even I will multiply her destruction.''

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. the pile for fire—the hostile materials for the city's destruction.

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The Parable of the Cooking Pot
…8That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood on the top of a rock, that it should not be covered. 9Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great. 10Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. …

Ezekiel 24:6 "'For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now encrusted, whose deposit will not go away! Take the meat out piece by piece in whatever order it comes.
Ezekiel 24:10 So heap on the wood and kindle the fire. Cook the meat well, mixing in the spices; and let the bones be charred.
Nahum 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!
Habakkuk 2:12 "Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!