The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 24
1 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth
month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word
came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, write the name of the day,
this same day. The king of Babylon drew
close to Jerusalem this same day.
3 Utter a parable to the rebellious house,
and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,
“Put the cauldron on the fire.
Put it on, and also pour water into it.
4 Gather its pieces into it,
even every good piece:
the thigh and the shoulder.
Fill it with the choice bones.
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 the Lord Yahweh says:
“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
without casting lots for it.
7 For the blood she shed 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 the Lord Yahweh says:
“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 burned.
11 Then set it empty on its coals,
that it may be hot, and its bronze may burn,
and that its filthiness may be moltenin
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, untilI have caused my
wrath toward you to rest.
14 I, Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.’
15 Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
16 “Son of man, behold, I will take away
from you the desire of your eyes with one
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 sandals on your
feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat
mourner’s bread.”
18 So I spoke to thepeople inthemorning,
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 mean to us, that you
act like this?”
20 Then I said to them, “Yahweh’s word
came to me, saying,
21 ‘Speak to the house ofIsrael, “The Lord
Yahweh says: ‘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.
23 Your turbans will be on your heads,
and your sandals on your feet. You won’t
mourn or weep; but you will pine away
in your iniquities, and moan one toward
another.
24 Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you;
according to all that he has done, you will
do. When this comes, then you will know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.
25 “You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the
day when I take from them their strength,
the joy of their glory, the desire of their
eyes, and that whereupon they set their
heart—their sons and their daughters
26 that in that day he who escapes will
come to you, to cause you to hear it with
your ears?
27 In that day your mouth will be opened
to him who has escaped, and you will
speak and be no more mute. So you will be
a sign to them. Then they will know that I
am Yahweh.