Ezekiel 24:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴Throw^[a] in the legs and shoulders
of your finest sheep
and put in the juicy bones.
⁵Pile wood^[b] underneath the pot,
and let the meat and bones
boil until they are done.”

⁶These words mean that Jerusalem is doomed! The city is filled with murderers and is like an old, rusty pot. The meat is taken out piece by piece, and no one cares what happens to it.^[c]

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Footnotes

24.4 Throw: When an asterisk (*) occurs before a verse number, it indicates that this verse and the following have been combined.
24.5 Pile wood: Or “Stack the bones.”
24.6 and no one cares what happens to it: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.