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Ezekiel 24

24 In the ninth year after the Babylonians took us people of Israel away to Babylonia, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Yahweh gave me a message. He said, 2 “Mortal, write down today’s date, this very day, because on this very day the king of Babylon has surrounded Jerusalem with his army in order to attack it. 3 Tell a parable to these people who continually rebel against me. Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says: Put a cooking pot on the fire, and pour water into it. 4 Put pieces of meat into the pot, all the best pieces— the thigh and the shoulder. Fill the pot with the finest bones. 5 Take the best sheep from the flock, and pile bones under the pot for fuel. Boil the meat thoroughly until the bones inside the pot have cooked as well.

6 So then, this is what the Lord Yahweh says: How terrible it will be for Jerusalem, the city where people murder one another! That city is like that pot, whose thick rust stays inside it and never comes off. Take the pieces of meat out of the pot one piece at a time; do not cast lots to decide which pieces to take out, because none of them will remain. 7 The people of that city murdered others, and the blood of the people whom they killed is still there. They spilled that blood on bare rock; they did not pour it out on the ground, where dust would have covered it. 8 I am the one who caused the blood of those murdered people to remain on the bare rock, where no one could cover it, so that I would become very angry and pay those people back for what they did.

9 So this is what the Lord Yahweh says: How terrible it will be for that city where people murder one another! I myself will pile the firewood high under that pot. 10 Pile on more wood and light the fire! Cook the meat until it is done, and boil the broth well, and let the fire burn up the bones. 11 Then set the empty pot on the coals until it becomes very hot and its bronze glows red. Then the fire will melt away everything that is filthy inside it and destroy all its rust. 12 That city has worn itself out with all its efforts, but its thick rust still would not come off, not even when the fire burned it. 13 Jerusalem, the rust in that pot represents the shameful things that you have done. I tried to make you stop sinning, but you refused to stop. So you will remain sinful until I have finished punishing you in my anger. 14 I, Yahweh, have spoken. The time when I will punish you is coming, and I will certainly do what I have said. I will not hold back, I will not pity you, and I will not change my mind. I will punish you as you deserve for the way you have lived and for the things that you have done. That is what I, the Lord Yahweh, declare.’ ”

15 Yahweh gave me another message. He said, 16 “Mortal, listen! I am about to take away from you your wife, the one whom you love to look at. She will die suddenly. However, you must not mourn for her or weep, and you must not let your tears flow. 17 Groan quietly; do not mourn out loud for your dead wife. Keep your turban wrapped on your head and your sandals on your feet, and do not cover the lower part of your face, as mourners do. Do not eat the food that friends bring to those who are mourning.” 18 So one morning I spoke to the people, and that evening my wife died. The next morning I did what Yahweh had commanded me to do. 19 Then the people said to me, “Tell us what these things mean for us, the things that you are doing.” 20 So I said to them, “Yahweh gave me this message. 21 He told me to say to you people of Israel that this is what he, the Lord Yahweh, says: ‘I am about to allow enemies to destroy my temple and make it unholy, the building that you are so proud of, the building that you love to look at and that you cherish deeply. Also, the sons and daughters whom you left behind in Jerusalem will die in battle. 22 Then you will do what Ezekiel has done: you will not cover the lower part of your faces, and you will not eat the food that friends bring to those who are mourning. 23 You will keep your turbans on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will slowly weaken and die because of the sins that you have committed, and you will groan to one another. 24 Ezekiel is a warning to you; you will do everything that he has done. When all this happens, you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

25 Yahweh also said to me, “Mortal, on the day when I take away from those people the temple that made them feel safe and strong, the beautiful building that made them rejoice, the building that they delighted to look at and longed for, I will also take away their sons and their daughters. 26 On that day, someone who escapes from Jerusalem will come to you and tell you what has happened there. 27 At that time I will enable you to speak again; you will talk with that man, and you will no longer remain silent. In this way you will be a warning to your people, and they will know that I am Yahweh.”

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