Ezekiel 24 · Verse 8

Ezekiel 24:8

That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
Ezekiel 24:8, King James Version

Ezekiel 24:8 in other translations

BSBIn order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’
WEBThat it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.”
ASVThat 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.
YLTTo cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on a clear place of a rock--not to be covered.
DARBYThat it might cause fury to come up to execute vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
BBEIn order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.
WebsterThat it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

What does Ezekiel 24:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. That it might cause--God purposely let her so shamelessly pour the blood on the bare rock, "that it might" the more loudly and openly cry for vengeance from on high; and that the connection between the guilt and the punishment might be the more palpable. The blood of Abel, though the ground received it, still cries to heaven for vengeance (Ge 4:10, 11); much more blood shamelessly exposed on the bare rock. set her blood--She shall be paid back in kind (Mt 7:2). She openly shed blood, and her blood shall openly be shed.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 That it might cause fury - This very blood shall be against them, as the blood of Abel was against Cain.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 24:1-14

The fate of Jerusalem. (Ezek 24:1-14) The extent of the sufferings of the Jews. (Ezek 24:15-27) Verses 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…

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Ezekiel 24:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לְהַעֲל֤וֹתle.ha.'a.Lotto stir upH5927
חֵמָה֙che.MahrageH2534
לִנְקֹ֣םlin.Komto avengeH5358
נָקָ֔םna.KamvengeanceH5359
נָתַ֥תִּיna.Ta.tiI putH5414
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
דָּמָ֖הּda.Mahblood itsH1818
עַל\־'al-onH5921
צְחִ֣יחַtze.Chi.achbareness ofH6706
סָ֑לַעSa.la'rockH5553
לְבִלְתִּ֖יle.vil.Tito notH1115
הִכָּסֽוֹת\׃\ \פhi.ka.Sotto be coveredH3680

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Cross references for Ezekiel 24:8

  • Deuteronomy 32:21-22

    They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

  • Ezekiel 23:45

    And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

  • Ezekiel 16:37-38

    Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

  • 1 Corinthians 4:5

    Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

  • Deuteronomy 29:22-28

    So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: …

  • Revelation 18:5-10

    For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. …

  • Jeremiah 22:8-9

    And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city? Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:25

    Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

  • Jeremiah 7:20

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

  • Ezekiel 5:13

    Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

  • 2 Kings 22:17

    Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

  • Revelation 17:1-6

    And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
it might.
5:13; 8:17,18; 22:30,31; De 32:21,22; 2Ki 22:17; 2Ch 34:25
2Ch 36:16,17; Jer 7:18,20; 15:1-4
I have set.
16:37,38; 23:45; De 29:22-28; Jer 22:8,9; Mt 7:2; 1Co 4:5
Re 17:1-6; 18:5-10,16

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Context

  • Ezekiel 24:7

    For 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;

  • Ezekiel 24:8

    That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

  • Ezekiel 24:9

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

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Ezekiel 24:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Habiendo, pues, hecho subir la ira para hacer venganza, yo pondré su sangre sobre la dura piedra, para que no sea cubierta.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Pour faire monter la fureur, pour exécuter la vengeance, j’ai mis son sang sur le roc nu, pour qu’il ne soit pas couvert.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Um Grimm heraufzuführen, um Rache zu üben, habe ich ihr Blut auf einen kahlen Felsen getan, damit es nicht bedeckt würde. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ut superinducerem indignationem meam, et vindicta ulciscerer, dedi sanguinem ejus super petram limpidissimam, ne operiretur.