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.

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Footnotes

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”