Therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, (B)they are the meat, and (C)this city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it.

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    you (A)who hate the good and love the evil,
(B)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
    and their flesh from off their bones,
(C)who eat the flesh of my people,
    and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
    and chop them up like meat in a pot,
    like flesh in a cauldron.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them

And (A)utter a parable to (B)the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord God:

“Set on (C)the pot, set it on;
    pour in water also;
put in it the pieces of meat,
    all the good pieces, (D)the thigh and the shoulder;
    fill it with choice bones.
Take the choicest one of the flock;
    pile the logs[a] under it;
boil it well;
    seethe also its bones in it.

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: (E)Woe to the bloody city, to (F)the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.[b] For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on (G)the bare rock; (H)she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust. To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! (I)I also will make the pile great. 10 Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices,[c] and let the bones be burned up. 11 Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, (J)that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed. 12 (K)She has wearied herself with toil;[d] its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion! 13 On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, (L)you shall not be cleansed anymore till (M)I have satisfied my fury upon you.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:5 Compare verse 10; Hebrew the bones
  2. Ezekiel 24:6 Hebrew no lot has fallen upon it
  3. Ezekiel 24:10 Or empty out the broth
  4. Ezekiel 24:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

The People Exiled to Babylon

24 And the captain of the guard took (A)Seraiah the chief priest, and (B)Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold; 25 and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and (C)seven men of the king's council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. 26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at (D)Riblah. 27 And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at (E)Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

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18 (A)And the captain of the guard took (B)Seraiah the chief priest and (C)Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold; 19 and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and (D)five men of the king's council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city. 20 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at (E)Riblah. 21 And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at (F)Riblah in the land of Hamath. (G)So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

Gedaliah Made Governor of Judah

22 And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed (H)Gedaliah the son of (I)Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor.

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Like (A)emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. (B)Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.” 10 Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, (C)all my words that I shall speak to you receive (D)in your heart, and hear with your ears. 11 And go to the exiles, (E)to your people, and speak to them and say to them, (F)‘Thus says the Lord God,’ (G)whether they hear or refuse to hear.”

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