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I will take you out of it and give you over to the hands of foreigners and execute judgments upon you.(A)

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I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands(A) of foreigners and inflict punishment on you.(B)

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And 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;(A)

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Tell this rebellious people(A) a parable(B) and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘Put on the cooking pot;(C) put it on
    and pour water into it.

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Therefore 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.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 24.6 Heb piece, no lot has fallen on it

“‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘Woe(A) to the city of bloodshed,(B)
    to the pot now encrusted,
    whose deposit will not go away!
Take the meat out piece by piece
    in whatever order(C) it comes.(D)

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10 Heap up the logs; kindle the fire;
    boil the meat well; boil down the broth;[a]
    let the bones be burned.

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  1. 24.10 Gk: Heb mix in the spices

10 So heap on the wood
    and kindle the fire.
Cook the meat well,
    mixing in the spices;
    and let the bones be charred.

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11 Stand it empty upon the coals,
    so that it may become hot, its copper glow,
    its filth melt in it, its crud be consumed.

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11 Then set the empty pot on the coals
    till it becomes hot and its copper glows,
so that its impurities may be melted
    and its deposit burned away.(A)

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who eat the flesh of my people,
    flay their skin off them,
break their bones in pieces,
    and chop them up like meat[a] in a kettle,
    like flesh in a caldron.(A)

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  1. 3.3 Gk: Heb as

who eat my people’s flesh,(A)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;(B)
who chop(C) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?(D)

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