10 Heap on much wood: [a]kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and cast in spice, and let the bones be burnt.

11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that [b]the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, and that the scum of it may be consumed.

12 [c]She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not out of her: therefore her scum shall be consumed with fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:10 Meaning, that the city should be utterly destroyed, and that he would give the enemies an appetite thereunto.
  2. Ezekiel 24:11 Or, bottom.
  3. Ezekiel 24:12 The city hath flattered herself in vain.

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