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Ezekiel 24:5-22 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

5. Take the choice of the flock,and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron.Make it boil well.Yes, let its bones be boiled within it.”

6. “‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:“Woe to the bloody city,to the cauldron whose rust is in it,and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it!Take out of it piece after piece.No lot is fallen on it.

7. “‘“For her blood is in the middle of her.She set it on the bare rock.She didn’t pour it on the ground,to cover it with dust.

8. That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,I have set her blood on the bare rock,that it should not be covered.”

9. “‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:“Woe to the bloody city!I also will make the pile great.

10. Heap on the wood.Make the fire hot.Boil the meat well.Make the broth thick,and let the bones be burnt.

11. Then set it empty on its coals,that it may be hot,and its bronze may burn,and that its filthiness may be molten in it,that its rust may be consumed.

12. She is weary with toil;yet her great rust,rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

13. “‘“In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath towards you to rest.

14. I, the Lord, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord GOD.’”

15. Also the Lord’s word came to me, saying,

16. “Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

17. Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

18. So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.

19. The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”

20. Then I said to them, “the Lord’s word came to me, saying,

21. ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

22. You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.

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