24And the word of Yahweh came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,^a ²“Son of man,^b write for yourself the name of the day, this very day.^c The king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem on exactly this day! ³And deliver a proverb^d to the rebellious house,^e and you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Place the pot! Place it and also pour water into it. ⁴Gather its pieces to it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder, fill it with choice bones; ⁵take the choicest of the flock, and also pile the bones^f under it; boil it vigorously;^g indeed,^h its bones boiled in the midst of it.” ’ ”

⁶Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Woe to the city of bloodguilt! A pot that has its rust in it; its rust did not go out from it.ⁱ Bring it out piece by piece;^j one is as good as another.^k ⁷For her blood was in the midst of her; she put it on a bare rock;^l she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.^m ⁸To stir up rage, to avenge myself through vengeance, I placed its blood on the barrenness of a rock, so that it may not be covered.”ⁿ

⁹Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Woe to the city of bloodguilt! I, even I, will make the pile of wood great! ¹⁰Pile up the logs; kindle the fire; finish cooking the meat, and mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned.^o ¹¹And make it stand^p empty upon its burning coals so that it may become hot, and its copper may become molten and be melted in the midst of it,^q so that its uncleanness and its rust be consumed. ¹²Through effort she has caused weariness; its thick rust^r went not out of it. Its rust! Into the fire with its rust! ¹³In your uncleanness is obscene conduct, because I cleansed you, but you were not clean from your uncleanness; you will not be clean again until I fully vent my rage^s on you. ¹⁴I, Yahweh, I have spoken. It is coming, and I did it; I will not disregard, and I will not take pity, and I will not reconsider. According to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you!”^t declares^u the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^v ¹⁶“Son of man,^w look! I am taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague,^x but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down. ¹⁷Sigh in silence for the dead; you shall not make a mourning ceremony. Bind your turban on you, and you must put your sandals on your feet. You must not cover your upper lip,^y and the bread of mourners^z you shall not eat.” ¹⁸And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning just as^a I was commanded. ¹⁹And the people said to me, “Will you not make known to us what these things that you are doing mean for us?” ²⁰And I said to them that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^b ²¹“Say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I will be profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength and the delight of your eyes and the object of your own^c affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword, ²²and you shall do just as^d I did: You shall not cover your upper lip,^e and you shall not eat the bread of mourners.^f ²³And your turban must be on your heads, and your sandals must be on your feet. You shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, but you shall waste away because of your iniquities, and you shall groan to one another.^g ²⁴And Ezekiel will be to you as a sign; everything that he did^h you shall do; and when it comes you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

²⁵“And you, son of man,ⁱ will it not be that on the day when I take from them^j their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their inner self,^k their sons and daughters— ²⁶on that day a survivor will come to you with the news.^l ²⁷On that day your mouth shall be opened at the arrival of the fugitive,^m and you shall speak, and you shall not be silent any longer, and you shall be to them as a sign, and they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Judgment upon Various Gentile Nations

25And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^a ²“Son of man,^b set your face toward the Ammonites^c and prophesy against them, ³and you must say to the Ammonites,^d ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because of your saying, ‘Ah!’ to my sanctuary when it was profaned, and to the land of Israel when it was^e desolate, and to the house of Judah when they went into the exile, ⁴therefore look! I am giving you to the people^f of the East as a possession, and they will set up their encampments in you, and they will make in you their dwelling places; they themselves^g will eat your fruit and they themselves^h will drink your milk. ⁵And I will make Rabbah as a pasture of camels and the Ammonitesⁱ as a haunt of flocks, and they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ” ⁶For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because of clapping your hand and stamping with your foot, and because you rejoiced in^j yourself with all of your malice over the land of Israel, ⁷therefore look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I will give you as plunder^k to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will destroy you from the countries, and I will wipe you out, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”

⁸Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because of Moab and Seir saying, ‘The house of Judah is like all of the nations,’ ⁹therefore, look! I am opening the side of^l Moab from the cities on its frontier, the glory of the land: Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim. ¹⁰I will give it to the people^m of the East in addition to the Ammonitesⁿ as a possession, so that the Ammonites^o will not be remembered among the nations. ¹¹And on Moab I will execute punishments, and they will know that I am Yahweh.”

¹²Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because of the doings of Edom in avenging himself with vengeance for^p the house of Judah, and so they became very guilty and^q they avenged themselves on them,” ¹³therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “so^r I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it both human and animal, and I will make it a ruin from Teman and Dedan; they will fall by the sword. ¹⁴And I will exact my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my rage, and they will know my vengeance,” declares^s the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because of the acting^t of the Philistines in vengeance, so that they avenged themselves relentlessly with malice in themselves for destruction with everlasting hostility,^u ¹⁶therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Look! I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites, and I will destroy the remainder of the seacoast.^v ¹⁷And I will execute on them great vengeance with punishments of rage, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I exact my vengeance on them!”

Ezekiel Prophesies Against Tyre

26And it was in the eleventh^a year, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^b ²“Son of man,^c because^d Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Ah! The gates of the peoples are broken; it has swung open to me; I shall be filled, for it lies in ruins!’ ³Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Look! I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring up against you many nations like the stirring up of the sea stirring up its waves.^e ⁴And I will destroy the walls of Tyre, and they will demolish its towers, and I will scrape away its earthen dirt from it, and I will make it into a bare rock.^f ⁵It will become a place for spreading out dragnets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken,’ declares^g the Lord Yahweh. ‘And it will become as plunder for the nations, ⁶and its daughters who are in the field with the sword, they will be killed; and they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

⁷For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am bringing to Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, from the north, the king of kings, with horse and with chariot and with horsemen and his assembly and many people. ⁸Your daughters he will kill in the field with the sword, and he will place^h against you siege works, and he will build against you a siege ramp, and he will raise against you a shield, ⁹and the thrust of his battering ram he will direct against your walls, and your towers he will break down with his weapons. ¹⁰From the abundance of his horses he will cover you with their fine dust; at the sound of horseman and wheel and chariot your walls will shake, at his coming into your gates like the entrance of a city that is being broken through. ¹¹With the hooves of his horses he will trample all of your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong stone pillarsⁱ will tumble down to the earth. ¹²And they will plunder your wealth, and they will loot your merchandise, and they will break down your walls, and the houses of your delight they will break down, and your stones and your timbers and your earthen dirt they will cast into the midst of the water. ¹³And, I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will not be heard any longer. ¹⁴And I will make you into a bare rock,^j a place for the spreading out of dragnets. You will not be built again, for I, Yahweh, I have spoken,” declares^k the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre, “Will not the coastlands shake from the sound of your downfall, at the groaning of the wounded, at people being killed^l in the midst of you? ¹⁶And all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones, and they will remove their robes, and their beautiful garments^m of finished cloth they will take off. With terror they will be clothed, and on the ground they will sit, and they will tremble continually,ⁿ and they will be appalled over you. ¹⁷And they will raise a lament over you, and they will say to you,

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to say”
bOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
cLiterally “exactly the day the this”
dLiterally “quote a proverb”; “proverb a proverb”
eLiterally “the house of rebellion”
fOr possibly “logs”; the difference is one letter in Hebrew
gLiterally “boil its boiling”
hOr “also”
iLiterally “rust her not went forth from her”
jLiterally “according to its pieces”
kLiterally “no lot has fallen on it”
lLiterally “on barrenness of a rock she put it”
mOr “earth” or “dirt”
nLiterally “so as not to be covered”
oOr “charred”
pLiterally “cause it to stand”
qLiterally “her”
rLiterally “the abundance of its rust”
sLiterally “until causing rest I to my rage”
tOr “I will judge”
uLiterally “declaration of”
vLiterally “to say”
wLiterally “to say”
xOr “blow”
yOr “your mustache” (NASB)
zLiterally “men”
aLiterally “as that”
bLiterally “to say”
cOr “souls’,” or “selves’ ”
dLiterally “as that”
eOr “mustache”
fLiterally “men”
gLiterally “a man to his brother”
hLiterally “like all that he did”
iOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
jLiterally “on the day of to take me from them”
kOr “soul”
lLiterally “with a message for ears”
mLiterally “with the fugitive”; or “to the one who has escaped” (NRSV; cf. NASB)
aLiterally “to say”
bOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
cLiterally “sons of Ammon”
dLiterally “sons of Ammon”
eOr “became”
fOr “children”
gLiterally “they, they”
hLiterally “they, they”
iLiterally “sons of Ammon”
jOr “to”
kAccording to the reading tradition (Qere)
lOr “the flank”
mOr “children”
nLiterally “sons of Ammon”
oLiterally “sons of Ammon”
pOr “toward”
qOr “since”
rLiterally “and”
sLiterally “declaration of”
tLiterally “doing”
uLiterally “with hostility of ongoing ages/eternity”
vLiterally “the coast of the sea”
aLiterally “one ten”
bLiterally “to say”
cOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
dHebrew “because that”
eLiterally “with respect to its waves”
fLiterally “to barrenness of rock”
gLiterally “declaration of”
hHebrew “give”
iLiterally “the stone pillars of strength your”
jLiterally “to barrenness of rock”
kLiterally “declaration of”
lLiterally “at being killed a killing”
mLiterally “the garments of beautiful finished cloth”
nLiterally “for moments”
oOr “on”