Ezekiel 24 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Again in the ninth year [of King Jehoiachin’s captivity by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon], in the tenth month, on the tenth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“Put on a pot; put it on and also pour water into it;

Put in it the pieces [of meat],

Every good piece (the people of Jerusalem), the thigh and the shoulder;

Fill it with choice bones.

“Take the choicest of the flock,

And also pile wood under the pot.

Make it boil vigorously

And boil its bones in the pot.”

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD,

“Woe (judgment is coming) to the bloody city,

To the pot in which there is rust

And whose rust has not gone out of it!

Take out of it piece by piece,

Without making any choice.

“For her blood [that she has shed] remains in her midst;

She put it on the bare rock;

She did not pour it on the ground

To cover it with dust.

“That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,

I have put her blood [guilt for her children sacrificed to Molech] on the bare rock,

That it may not be covered.”

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD,

“Woe to the bloody city!

I will also make the pile [of wood] high.

“Heap on wood, kindle the fire,

Boil the meat well [done]

And mix in the spices,

And let the bones be burned.

“Then set the empty pot (Jerusalem) back on the coals

So that it may be hot

And its bronze may glow

And its filthiness may be melted

And its rust (scum) may be consumed.

“She has wearied Me with toil,

Yet her great rust has not left her;

Her thick rust and filth will not be burned away by fire [no matter how hot the flame].

“In your filthiness are lewdness and outrage.

Therefore I would have cleansed you,

Yet you were not [willing to be] cleansed,

You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again

Until I have satisfied My wrath against you.

“I the LORD have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not have compassion and I will not be sorry; in accordance with your ways and in accordance with your deeds I will judge and punish you,” says the Lord GOD.’”

Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

‘As for you, son of man, on the day when I take their strength and their stronghold from them, their joy and their glory, the desire of their eyes and [fn]their heart’s [chief] delight (the temple), and I also take their sons and their daughters,