The Book of Ezekiel (WEB)
24: 1Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of
Yahweh came to me, saying, 24:2Son of man, write you the name of the day, even of this same day:
the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day. 24:3Utter a parable to the rebellious
house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour
water into it: 24:4gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder;
fill it with the choice bones. 24:5Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones
under the caldron; make it boil well; yes, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it.
24:6Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is
therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
24:7For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground,
to cover it with dust. 24:8That 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. 24:9Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to
the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. 24:10Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well
the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned. 24:11Then set it empty on the coals
of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in
it, that the rust of it may be consumed. 24:12She has wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust
doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't go forth by fire. 24:13In your filthiness is lewdness:
because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your
filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest. 24:14I, Yahweh, have spoken it:
it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent;
according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord
Yahweh. 24:15Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 24:16Son of man, behold, I take away
from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall
your tears run down. 24:17Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress
on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread. 24:18So
I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was
commanded. 24:19The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are to us, that you do
so? 24:20Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 24:21Speak to the house of
Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power,
the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom
you have left behind shall fall by the sword. 24:22You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover
your lips, nor eat the bread of men. 24:23Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your
feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one
toward another. 24:24Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done shall you
do: when this comes, then shall you know that I am the Lord Yahweh. 24:25You, son of man, shall it
not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their
eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters, 24:26that in that day he
who escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears? 24:27In that day shall your
mouth be opened to him who is escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so shall you
be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
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