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Use the meat of the finest sheep;
    pile the wood[a] under the pot.
Let the water boil;
    boil the bones and the meat.”

This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “The city of murderers is doomed! It is like a corroded pot that is never cleaned. Piece after piece of meat is taken out, and not one is left. There was murder in the city, but the blood was not spilled on the ground where the dust could hide it; it was spilled on a bare rock.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:5 Probable text wood; Hebrew bones.

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