Ezekiel · Unlocked Literal Bible
Ezekiel 24 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 The word of Yahweh came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, and on the tenth day of the month, saying,
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 for yourself the name of this day, this exact day, for this exact day the king of Babylon has besieged Jerusalem.
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 So speak a proverb against this rebellious house, a parable. Say to them, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Place the cooking pot. Place it and pour water into it.
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 pieces of food within it, every good piece—the thigh and shoulder— and fill it with the best bones.
4 Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece: the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.
5 Take the best of the flock and pile up the bones under it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.
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 this: Woe to the city of blood, a cooking pot that has rust in it and that rust will not come out of it. Take piece after piece from it, but do not cast lots for 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 her blood is in the midst of her. She has set it on the smooth rock; she has not poured it out on the ground to cover it with dust,
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 so it brings fury up to exact vengeance. I placed her blood on the smooth rock so it could not be covered.
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 this: Woe to the city of blood. I will also enlarge the pile of wood.
9 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
10 Stack up the wood and kindle the fire. Cook the meat well and mix in the spices and let the bones be charred.
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 the pot on its coals empty, in order to heat and scorch its bronze, so its uncleanness within it will be melted, its corrosion consumed.'
11 Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its bronze may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed.
12 She has become weary because of toil, but her corrosion has not gone out of her by the fire.
12 She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.
13 Your shameful behavior is in your uncleanness. Because I tried to cleanse you but still you would not be cleansed from your uncleanness, you will not be cleansed anymore until I have satisfied my fury upon you.
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, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
14 I, Yahweh, have declared it, and I will do it. I will not relent nor will I rest from it. As your ways were, and as your activities, they will judge you!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.”
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 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
15 Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
16 “Son of man! Behold, I am taking the desire of your eyes from you with a plague, but you must not mourn nor weep, and your tears must not flow.
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 You must groan silently. Do not conduct a funeral for the dead. Tie your turban on you and place your sandals on your feet, but do not veil your facial hair or eat the bread of men who mourn for having lost their wives.”
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 the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning I did what I had been commanded to do.
18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.
19 The people asked me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean, the things that you are doing?”
19 The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things mean to us, that you act like this?”
20 So I said to them, “The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
20 Then I said to them, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
21 'Say to the house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says this: Behold! I will desecrate my sanctuary—the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword.
21 ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “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 Then you will do exactly as I have done: you will not veil your facial hair, nor eat the bread of mourning men!
22 You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.
23 Instead, your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet; you will not mourn nor weep, for you will melt away in your iniquities, and each man will groan for his brother.
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 So Ezekiel will be a sign for you, as everything that he has done you will do when this comes. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh!'”
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 “But you, son of man, on the day that I capture their temple, which is their joy, their pride, and what they see and desire—and when I take away their sons and daughters—
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 on that day, a refugee will come to you to give you the news!
26 that in that day he who escapes will come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
27 On that day your mouth will be opened up to that refugee and you will speak—you will no longer be silent. You will be a sign for them so that they will know that I am Yahweh.”
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.”
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Ezekiel
The priest, son of Buzi, among the exiles by the Chebar Canal to whom the word of the LORD came.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 24:24
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 8:1; 2 Kings 24:12; Ezekiel 32:1; Ezekiel 33:21
- 2 2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 52:4; Isaiah 30:8–9; Habakkuk 2:2–3
- 3 Ezekiel 20:49; Ezekiel 11:3; Ezekiel 17:2; Isaiah 1:2; Ezekiel 2:6
- 4 Micah 3:2–3; Ezekiel 22:18–22; Matthew 7:2
- 5 Jeremiah 52:24–27; Jeremiah 52:10; Jeremiah 39:6; Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 24:9–10
- 6 Ezekiel 22:2; Nahum 3:1; Ezekiel 22:27; Micah 7:2; Obadiah 11
- 7 Leviticus 17:13; Deuteronomy 12:16; Deuteronomy 12:24; Job 16:18; Jeremiah 2:34
- 8 Deuteronomy 32:21–22; Ezekiel 23:45; Ezekiel 16:37–38; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Deuteronomy 29:22–28
- 9 Habakkuk 2:12; Ezekiel 24:6; 2 Peter 3:7–12; Revelation 16:6; Ezekiel 22:31
- 10 Lamentations 1:10; Jeremiah 17:3; Jeremiah 20:5; Lamentations 2:16
- 11 Jeremiah 21:10; Malachi 4:1; Isaiah 1:25; Jeremiah 38:18; 1 Corinthians 3:12–13
- 12 Jeremiah 5:3; Jeremiah 9:5; Jeremiah 2:13; Jeremiah 51:58; Daniel 9:13–14
- 13 Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 22:24; Ezekiel 16:42; Ezekiel 8:18; Zephaniah 3:2
- 14 Matthew 16:27; Isaiah 3:11; Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 7:4; Ezekiel 5:11
- 16 Jeremiah 22:10; Jeremiah 13:17; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; Ezekiel 24:18; Song of Songs 7:10
- 17 Hosea 9:4; 2 Samuel 15:30; Leviticus 21:10; Leviticus 10:6; Jeremiah 16:4–7
- 18 1 Corinthians 7:29–30
- 19 Ezekiel 12:9; Ezekiel 37:18; Ezekiel 17:12; Ezekiel 20:49; Ezekiel 21:7
- 21 Ezekiel 23:47; Psalm 27:4; Jeremiah 7:14; Ezekiel 23:25; Psalm 84:1
- 22 Jeremiah 16:4–7; Amos 6:9–10; Ezekiel 24:16–17; Psalm 78:64; Jeremiah 47:3
- 23 Ezekiel 4:17; Leviticus 26:39; Ezekiel 33:10; Job 27:15; Isaiah 59:11
- 24 Ezekiel 4:3; Ezekiel 12:11; Luke 11:29–30; Isaiah 20:3; Ezekiel 6:7
- 25 Ezekiel 24:21; Psalm 48:2; Jeremiah 11:22; Psalm 50:2; Psalm 122:1–9
- 26 Job 1:15–19; Ezekiel 33:21–22; 1 Samuel 4:12–18
- 27 Ezekiel 33:22; Ezekiel 29:21; Exodus 6:11–12; Psalm 51:15; Ezekiel 3:26–27
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