Ezekiel 24:3-14

The Voice

    Put the cooking pot on the fire;
        put it on and fill it with water.
⁴     Put the finest cuts of meat into it—legs and brisket;
        fill it with the best bones.
⁵     Pick out the best from the flock,
        stack wood beneath the pot,
    Bring it to a rolling boil,
        and cook what’s in the pot.

⁶     Woe to this city polluted with blood—
        that pot thickly corroded, whose filth is impossible to clean!
    Empty the pot one piece at a time;
        don’t bother choosing one or the other!
⁷     The blood she shed is still polluting the city.
        She poured it out on bare rock
    Instead of into the ground
        to be absorbed by the dust where blood belongs.
⁸     I have spilled her blood on bare rock
        so that it may not be covered,
        knowing My anger would be ignited and My revenge accomplished.
⁹     That’s why I, the Eternal Lord, speak out:
    Woe to this city polluted with blood;
        I will stack the wood Myself—
¹⁰     Stack it high beneath the pot
        to feed the fire.
    Mix spices and seasoning into the boiling brew
        and cook the meat and then burn the bones.
¹¹     Set the empty pot on the coals
        until it grows so hot its metal begins to glow,
        its filth melts inside, and no trace of corrosion remains.
¹²     But she has thwarted My efforts!
        Her massive corrosion remains when the fire should have cleansed her.