Ezekiel 24–26

Chapter 24

Parable of the Boiling Pot

¹And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying,

²“Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon ¹has ^alaid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

³“Speak a ^aparable to the ^brebellious house and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord ¹God,

“Put on the ^cpot, put it on and also pour water in it;

^41aPut in it the pieces,

Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder;

Fill it with choice bones.

⁵“Take the ^achoicest of the flock,

And also pile ¹wood under ²the pot.

Make it boil vigorously.

Also seethe its bones in it.”

⁶‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,

“Woe to the ^abloody city,

To the pot in which there is rust

And whose rust has not gone out of it!

Take out of it piece after piece,

¹Without making a choice.

⁷“For her blood is in her midst;

She placed it on the bare rock;

She did not ^apour it on the ground

To cover it with dust.

⁸“That it may ^acause wrath to come up to take vengeance,

I have put her blood on the bare rock,

That it may not be covered.”

⁹‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,

“^aWoe to the bloody city!

I also will make the pile great.

¹⁰“Heap on the wood, kindle the fire,

¹Boil the flesh well

And mix in the spices,

And let the bones be burned.

¹¹“Then ^aset it empty on its coals

So that it may be hot

And its bronze may ¹glow

And its ^bfilthiness may be melted in it,

Its rust consumed.

¹²“She has ^awearied Me with toil,

Yet her great rust has not gone from her;

Let her rust be in the fire!

¹³“In your filthiness is lewdness.

Because I would have cleansed you,

Yet you are ^anot clean,

You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again

Until I have ^1bspent My wrath on you.

¹⁴“I, the Lord, have spoken; it is ^acoming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not ^bpity and I will not be sorry; ^caccording to your ways and according to your deeds ¹I will judge you,” declares the Lord God.’ ”

Death of Ezekiel’s Wife Is a Sign

¹⁵And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

¹⁶“Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the ^adesire of your eyes with a ^bblow; but you shall not ^cmourn and you shall not weep, and your ^dtears shall not come.

¹⁷“Groan silently; make ^ano mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet, and do not cover your mustache and ^bdo not eat the bread of men.”

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

¹⁹The people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?”

²⁰Then I said to them, “The word of the Lord came to me saying,

²¹‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the ^adesire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your ^bsons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

²²‘You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.

²³‘Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You ^awill not mourn and you will not weep, but ^byou will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan ¹to one another.

²⁴‘Thus Ezekiel will be a ^asign to you; according to all that he has done you will do; when it comes, then you will know that I am the Lord God.’ ”

²⁵‘As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their ^astronghold, the joy of their ¹pride, the desire of their eyes and ²their heart’s delight, their sons and their daughters,

²⁶that on that day he who ^aescapes will come to you with information for your ears?

²⁷‘On that day your ^amouth will be opened to him who escaped, and you will speak and be mute no longer. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

Chapter 25

Judgment on Gentile Nations—Ammon

¹And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

²“Son of man, set your face toward the ^asons of Ammon and prophesy against them,

³and say to the sons of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord ¹God! Thus says the Lord God, “Because you said, ‘^aAha!’ against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile,

⁴therefore, behold, I am going to give you to the ^asons of the east for a possession, and they will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they will ^beat your fruit and drink your milk.

⁵“I will make ^aRabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.”

⁶‘For thus says the Lord God, “Because you have ^aclapped your hands and stamped your feet and ^brejoiced with all the scorn of your soul against the land of Israel,

⁷therefore, behold, I have ^astretched out My hand against you and I will give you for ^bspoil to the nations. And I will ^ccut you off from the peoples and ^dmake you perish from the lands; I will destroy you. Thus you will ^eknow that I am the Lord.”

Moab

⁸‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because ^aMoab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,’

⁹therefore, behold, I am going to ¹deprive the flank of Moab of its cities, of its cities which are on its ²frontiers, the glory of the land, ^aBeth-jeshimoth, ^bBaal-meon and ^cKiriathaim,

¹⁰and I will give it for a possession along with the sons of Ammon to the ^asons of the east, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.

¹¹“Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Edom

¹²‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because ^aEdom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,”

¹³therefore thus says the Lord God, “I will also ^astretch out My hand against Edom and ^bcut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste; from ^cTeman even to ^dDedan they will fall by the sword.

¹⁴“^aI will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom ^baccording to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance,” declares the Lord God.

Philistia

¹⁵‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because the Philistines have acted in ^arevenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,”

¹⁶therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will ^astretch out My hand against the Philistines, even cut off the ^bCherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

¹⁷“I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will ^aknow that I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance on them.” ’ ”

Chapter 26

Judgment on Tyre

¹Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

²“Son of man, because ^aTyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the ^bgateway of the peoples is broken; it has ^1copened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’

³therefore thus says the Lord ¹God, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up ^amany nations against you, as the ^bsea brings up its waves.

⁴‘They will ^adestroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.

⁵‘She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God, ‘and she will become ^aspoil for the nations.

⁶‘Also her ^adaughters who are ¹on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

⁷For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^aking of kings, with horses, ^bchariots, cavalry and ¹a great army.

⁸“He will slay your daughters ¹on the mainland with the sword; and he will make ^asiege walls against you, cast up a ^bramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.

⁹“The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his ¹axes he will break down your towers.

¹⁰“Because of the multitude of his ^ahorses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will ^bshake at the noise of cavalry and ¹wagons and chariots when he ^centers your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

¹¹“With the hoofs of his ^ahorses he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will ^bcome down to the ground.

¹²“Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your ^amerchandise, ^bbreak down your walls and destroy your ^cpleasant houses, and ¹throw your stones and your timbers and your debris ^dinto the water.

¹³“So I will ¹silence the sound of your ^asongs, and the sound of your ^bharps will be heard no more.

¹⁴“I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be ^abuilt no more, for I the ^bLord have spoken,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁵Thus says the Lord God to Tyre, “Shall not the ^acoastlands ^bshake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?

¹⁶“Then all the princes of the sea will ^ago down from their thrones, remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will ^bclothe themselves with ¹trembling; they will sit on the ground, ^ctremble every moment and be appalled at you.

¹⁷“They will take up a ^alamentation over you and say to you,

‘^bHow you have perished, O inhabited one,

From the seas, O renowned city,

Which was ^cmighty on the sea,

She and her inhabitants,

Who ¹imposed ²her terror

On all her inhabitants!

¹⁸‘Now the ^acoastlands will tremble

On the day of your fall;

Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea

Will be terrified at your ^bpassing.’ ”

¹⁹For thus says the Lord God, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I ^abring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

²⁰then I will bring you down with those who ^ago down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the ^blower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not ¹be…