The Message

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            <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bring the Pot to a Boil</span></div><div class="m"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="label">1-5</span><span class="content">The Message of </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> came to me in the ninth year, the tenth month, and the tenth day of the month: &#8220;Son of man, write down this date. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. Tell this company of rebels a story:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;Put on the soup pot.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">Fill it with water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">Put chunks of meat into it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">all the choice pieces&#8212;loin and brisket.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">Pick out the best soup bones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">from the best of the sheep in the flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">Pile wood beneath the pot.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">Bring it to a boil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">and cook the soup.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4 v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.1+EZK.24.2+EZK.24.3+EZK.24.4+EZK.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, the Master, says:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;Doom to the city of murder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">to the pot thick with scum,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">thick with a filth that can&#8217;t be scoured.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">Empty the pot piece by piece;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">don&#8217;t bother who gets what.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7 v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.7+EZK.24.8"><span class="label">7-8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;The blood from murders</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7 v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.7+EZK.24.8"><span class="content">has stained the whole city;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7 v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.7+EZK.24.8"><span class="content">Blood runs bold on the street stones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7 v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.7+EZK.24.8"><span class="content">with no one bothering to wash it off&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7 v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.7+EZK.24.8"><span class="content">Blood out in the open to public view</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7 v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.7+EZK.24.8"><span class="content">to provoke my wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7 v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.7+EZK.24.8"><span class="content">to trigger my vengeance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7 v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.7+EZK.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="label">9-12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;Therefore, this is what </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, the Master, says:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;Doom to the city of murder!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">I, too, will pile on the wood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">Stack the wood high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">light the match,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">Cook the meat, spice it well, pour out the broth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">and then burn the bones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">Then I&#8217;ll set the empty pot on the coals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">and heat it red-hot so the bronze glows,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">So the germs are killed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">and the corruption is burned off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">But it&#8217;s hopeless. It&#8217;s too far gone.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">The filth is too thick.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.9+EZK.24.10+EZK.24.11+EZK.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13 v14" data-usfm="EZK.24.13+EZK.24.14"><span class="label">13-14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;Your encrusted filth is your filthy sex. I wanted to clean you up, but you wouldn&#8217;t let me. I&#8217;ll make no more attempts at cleaning you up until my anger quiets down. I, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, have said it, and I&#8217;ll do it. I&#8217;m not holding back. I&#8217;ve run out of compassion. I&#8217;m not changing my mind. You&#8217;re getting exactly what&#8217;s coming to you. Decree of </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, the Master.&#8217;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">No Tears</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13 v14" data-usfm="EZK.24.13+EZK.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15 v16 v17" data-usfm="EZK.24.15+EZK.24.16+EZK.24.17"><span class="label">15-17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s Message came to me: &#8220;Son of man, I&#8217;m about to take from you the delight of your life&#8212;a real blow, I know. But, please, no tears. Keep your grief to yourself. No public mourning. Get dressed as usual and go about your work&#8212;none of the usual funeral rituals.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15 v16 v17" data-usfm="EZK.24.15+EZK.24.16+EZK.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I preached to the people in the morning. That evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I&#8217;d been told.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The people came to me, saying, &#8220;Tell us why you&#8217;re acting like this. What does it mean, anyway?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20 v21" data-usfm="EZK.24.20+EZK.24.21"><span class="label">20-21</span><span class="content">So I told them, &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s Word came to me, saying, &#8216;Tell the family of Israel, This is what </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, the Master, says: I will desecrate my Sanctuary, your proud impregnable fort, the delight of your life, your heart&#8217;s desire. The children you left behind will be killed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20 v21" data-usfm="EZK.24.20+EZK.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22 v23 v24" data-usfm="EZK.24.22+EZK.24.23+EZK.24.24"><span class="label">22-24</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;Then you&#8217;ll do exactly as I&#8217;ve done. You&#8217;ll perform none of the usual funeral rituals. You&#8217;ll get dressed as usual and go about your work. No tears. But your sins will eat away at you from within and you&#8217;ll groan among yourselves. Ezekiel will be your example. The way he did it is the way you&#8217;ll do it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22 v23 v24" data-usfm="EZK.24.22+EZK.24.23+EZK.24.24"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8216;When this happens you&#8217;ll recognize that I am </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, the Master.&#8217;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22 v23 v24" data-usfm="EZK.24.22+EZK.24.23+EZK.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="EZK.24.25+EZK.24.26+EZK.24.27"><span class="label">25-27</span><span class="content">&#8220;And you, son of man: The day I take away the people&#8217;s refuge, their great joy, the delight of their life, what they&#8217;ve most longed for, along with all their children&#8212;on that very day a survivor will arrive and tell you what happened to the city. You&#8217;ll break your silence and start talking again, talking to the survivor. Again, you&#8217;ll be an example for them. And they&#8217;ll recognize that I am </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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The Message of GOD came to me in the ninth year, the tenth month, and the tenth day of the month: “Son of man, write down this date. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. Tell this company of rebels a story:

“‘Put on the soup pot.
Fill it with water.
Put chunks of meat into it,
all the choice pieces—loin and brisket.
Pick out the best soup bones
from the best of the sheep in the flock.
Pile wood beneath the pot.
Bring it to a boil
and cook the soup.

“‘GOD, the Master, says:

“‘Doom to the city of murder,
to the pot thick with scum,
thick with a filth that can’t be scoured.
Empty the pot piece by piece;
don’t bother who gets what.

“‘The blood from murders
has stained the whole city;
Blood runs bold on the street stones,
with no one bothering to wash it off—
Blood out in the open to public view
to provoke my wrath,
to trigger my vengeance.

“‘Therefore, this is what GOD, the Master, says:

“‘Doom to the city of murder!
I, too, will pile on the wood.
Stack the wood high,
light the match,
Cook the meat, spice it well, pour out the broth,
and then burn the bones.
Then I’ll set the empty pot on the coals
and heat it red-hot so the bronze glows,
So the germs are killed
and the corruption is burned off.
But it’s hopeless. It’s too far gone.
The filth is too thick.

“‘Your encrusted filth is your filthy sex. I wanted to clean you up, but you wouldn’t let me. I’ll make no more attempts at cleaning you up until my anger quiets down. I, GOD, have said it, and I’ll do it. I’m not holding back. I’ve run out of compassion. I’m not changing my mind. You’re getting exactly what’s coming to you. Decree of GOD, the Master.’”

GOD’s Message came to me: “Son of man, I’m about to take from you the delight of your life—a real blow, I know. But, please, no tears. Keep your grief to yourself. No public mourning. Get dressed as usual and go about your work—none of the usual funeral rituals.”
I preached to the people in the morning. That evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I’d been told.
The people came to me, saying, “Tell us why you’re acting like this. What does it mean, anyway?”
So I told them, “GOD’s Word came to me, saying, ‘Tell the family of Israel, This is what GOD, the Master, says: I will desecrate my Sanctuary, your proud impregnable fort, the delight of your life, your heart’s desire. The children you left behind will be killed.
“‘Then you’ll do exactly as I’ve done. You’ll perform none of the usual funeral rituals. You’ll get dressed as usual and go about your work. No tears. But your sins will eat away at you from within and you’ll groan among yourselves. Ezekiel will be your example. The way he did it is the way you’ll do it.
“‘When this happens you’ll recognize that I am GOD, the Master.’”

“And you, son of man: The day I take away the people’s refuge, their great joy, the delight of their life, what they’ve most longed for, along with all their children—on that very day a survivor will arrive and tell you what happened to the city. You’ll break your silence and start talking again, talking to the survivor. Again, you’ll be an example for them. And they’ll recognize that I am GOD.”

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