Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 24:7
A church father on this verse
“(Ver. 23, 24 onwards) Again, I raised my hand against them in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the lands, because they had not performed my judgments, and had rejected my commandments, and had violated my Sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols (or thoughts) of their fat…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock: I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;
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5which are taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them: her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her.
6Therefore thus saith the Lord; O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.
— Ezekiel 24:7 —
8that my wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken: I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.
9Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also make the firebrand great,