Ezekiel 24:3–13

³And utter an allegory to the rebellious house and say to them: Thus says the Lord God:

Set on the pot; set it on;

pour in water also;^*

⁴put in it the pieces,

all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder;

fill it with choice cuts.

⁵Take the choicest one of the flock;

pile the logs^c under it;

boil its pieces;^d

seethe^e also its bones in it.

⁶Therefore thus says the Lord God:

Woe to the bloody city,

the pot whose crud is in it,

whose crud has not gone out of it!

Empty it piece by piece,

making no choice at all.^f*

⁷For the blood she shed is inside it;

she placed it on a bare rock;

she did not pour it out on the ground,

to cover it with earth.^*

⁸To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance,

I have placed the blood she shed

on a bare rock,

so that it may not be covered.

⁹Therefore thus says the Lord God:

Woe to the bloody city!

I will even make the pile great.^*

¹⁰Heap up the logs; kindle the fire;

boil the meat well; boil down the broth;^g

let the bones be burned.

¹¹Stand it empty upon the coals,

so that it may become hot, its copper glow,

its filth melt in it, its crud be consumed.

¹²In vain I have wearied myself;^h

its thick crud does not depart.

To the fire with its crud!

¹³Yet when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness,

you did not become clean from your filth;

you shall not again be cleansed

until I have satisfied my fury upon you.^*