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Ezekiel 24 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Cooking Pot
1 AND the word of our Lord was made to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying:📜💬📚
2 Son of man, write thee the name of this day, wherein the king of Babylon is confirmed against Jerusalem to day.📜💬📚
3 And thou shalt speak by a proverb to the exasperating house a parable, & shalt say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Set thou a pot, set it, I say, and put water into it.📜💬📚
4 Heap together the pieces thereof into it, every good part, the thigh and the shoulder, the chosen things and full of bones.📜💬📚
5 Take the fattest beast, and lay together piles of bones also under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and the bones thereof are throughly sodden in the midst thereof.📜💬📚
6 Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Woe to the city of blood, to the pot, whose rustiness is in it, and the rustiness thereof is not gone out of it: by her parts and by her parts cast her out, there hath no lot fallen upon her.📜💬📚
7 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the most clear rock: she shed it not upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.📜💬📚
8 That I might bring mine indignation in upon her, and might revenge with vengeance: I gave her blood upon the most clear rock, that it might not be covered.📜💬📚
9 Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Woe to the city of blood, whose bonefire I will make great.📜💬📚
10 Heap together the bones, which I will burn with fire: the flesh shall be consumed, and all the composition shall be sod, and the bones shall dry away.📜💬📚
11 Set it also upon hot burning coals empty, that the brass thereof may wax hot, and be melted: and let the filth of it be melted in the midst thereof, and let the rust thereof be consumed.📜💬📚
12 There hath been sweating with much labour, & the exceeding rust thereof is not gone out, no not by fire.📜💬📚
13 Thine uncleanness is execrable: because I would cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: yea neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I make mine indignation to cease in thee.📜💬📚
14 I, the Lord have spoken: It shall come, and I will do it: I will not pass, nor spare, nor be pacified: according to thy ways, and according to thine inventions will I judge thee, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
Ezekiel's Wife Dies
15 And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:📜💬📚
16 Son of man, behold I take from thee the thing that thine eyes desire in a plague: and thou shalt not lament, nor weep: neither shall thy tears run.📜💬📚
17 Sigh holding thy peace, thou shalt not make the mourning of the dead: let thy crown be tied round about thee, and thy shoes shall be on thy feet, neither shalt thou cover thy face with a cloth, neither shalt thou eat the meats of mourners.📜💬📚
18 I spake therefore to the people in the morning, and my wife died at even: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me.📜💬📚
19 And the people said to me: Why doest thou not tell us what these things signify, that thou doest?📜💬📚
20 And I said to them: The word of our Lord was made to me, saying:📜💬📚
21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I will pollute my sanctuary, the pride of your empire, and the thing that your eyes desire, and upon which your soul quaketh for fear: your sons, and your daughters, which you have left, shall fall by the sword.📜💬📚
22 And you shall do as I have done: your faces with a cloth you shall not cover, and the meats of mourners you shall not eat.📜💬📚
23 You shall have crowns on your heads, & shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and every one shall groan toward his brother.📜💬📚
24 And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a portending sign: according to all things, that he hath done, shall you do when this shall come: & you shall know that I am the Lord God.📜💬📚
25 And thou son of man, behold in the day, wherein I will take away from them their strength, and the joy of dignity, and the desire of their eyes, whereupon their souls rest, their sons and daughters.📜💬📚
26 In that day when one flying shall come to thee, to tell thee:📜💬📚
27 in that day, I say, shall thy mouth be opened with him that flyeth, and thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no more: and thou shalt be unto them for a portending sign, and you shall know that I am the Lord.📜💬📚
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