Jubilee2000 - Ezekiel - 24

24:1  Again in the ninth year, in the tenth [month], in the tenth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:2  Son of man, write the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of Babylon laid siege against Jerusalem this same day.

24:3  And speak unto the house of rebellion by parable and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Set on a pot, set [it] on, and also pour water into it:

24:4  gather her pieces [of meat] into it, [even] every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill [it] with the choice bones.

24:5  Take the choice of the flock and burn also the bones under it [and] make it boil well and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

24:6  For thus hath the Lord GOD said: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] therein and whose scum is not gone out of it! For her pieces, because of her pieces let it be removed; let no lot fall upon it.

24:7  For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she did not poured it upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

24:8  that wrath might rise up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the high place of the rock that it should not be covered.

24:9  Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Woe to the bloody city! I will also make a great fire,

24:10  multiplying the wood, kindling the fire, to consume the flesh and to make the broth, and the bones shall be burned;

24:11  setting afterward the empty pot upon the coals thereof that it may become [red] hot and may burn and [that] the filthiness of it may be molten in it, [that] the scum of it may be consumed.

24:12  In fraud she has become weary, and her great scum did not go forth out of her; her scum [shall be] in the fire.

24:13  In thy perverse filthiness [thou shalt die] because I have cleansed thee, and thou didst not cleanse thyself from thy uncleanness; thou shalt never cleanse thyself again, until I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

24:14  I, the LORD, have spoken: I came and worked. I will not turn back, neither will I have mercy, neither will I repent; according to thy ways and according to thy doings, they shall judge thee, said the Lord GOD.

24:15  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:16  Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes by death; yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

24:17  Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind thy turban upon thy head, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet and do not cover [thy] lips and do not eat the bread of comfort.

24:18  So I spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

24:19  And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these [things are] to us, that thou doest [so]?

24:20  Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:21  Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the gift of your soul; your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

24:22  And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover [your] lips nor eat the bread of men.

24:23  And your turbans [shall be] upon your heads and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities and cry out one with another.

24:24  Thus Ezekiel shall be unto you for a sign: according to all that he has done ye shall do: and when this comes, ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

24:25  Also, thou son of man, in the day when [I] take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and the care of their souls, their sons and their daughters,

24:26  that day [one that] escapes shall come unto thee, to bring the news.

24:27  In that day thy mouth shall be opened [to speak] unto him who is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and no longer be dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.: