Lexicon :: Strong's H5518 - sîr

Elisha came back to Gilgal during a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”

And Huram also made the pails [for ashes], the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon in the house of God:

“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;

He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.

Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],

He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.

“Moab is My [fn]washbowl;

Over Edom I shall throw My shoe [in triumph];

Over Philistia I raise the shout [of victory].”

“Moab is My washbowl;

Over Edom I will throw My shoe [to show Edom is Mine];

Over Philistia I will shout [in triumph].”

For like the crackling of [burning] thorn bushes under a pot,

So is the laughter of the fool;

And this too is vanity (futility).

Thorns will come up in its fortified palaces,

Nettles and brambles in its fortified cities;

It will be a haunt for jackals,

An abode for ostriches.

The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, tilting away from the north [its mouth about to pour out on the south, on Judea].”

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

‘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.

“Therefore, behold, I [the LORD God] will hedge up her way with thorns;

And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.

The Lord GOD has sworn [an oath] by His holiness

That, “Behold, the days are coming upon you

When they shall take you away with meat hooks,

And the last of you with fish hooks.

You who eat the flesh of my people,

Strip off their skin from them,

Break their bones

And chop them in pieces as for the pot,

Like meat in a kettle.”

Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel],

And like those drowned in drunkenness,

[fn]The people of Nineveh are consumed [through fire]

Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the LORD’S wrath].

In that day there will be written on the little bells on the horses, “[fn]HOLY TO THE LORD.” And the cooking pots in the LORD’S house will be [holy to the LORD] like the bowls before the altar.