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Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Woe to the bloody city, a pot whose residue[a] is inside it, whose residue has not gone out of it!

Take out its cuts of meat piece by piece, without choosing one piece in preference to another.[b] Do this because the blood she shed remains within her. She spilled it on a bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground, where the soil would cover it. To rouse wrath and to exact repayment, I have spilled her blood on a bare rock so that it would not be covered.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:6 The meaning of this word is uncertain. It refers to some sort of uncleanness, perhaps the carbonized waste that remains in an overheated pot.
  2. Ezekiel 24:6 The Hebrew reads no lot has fallen on it for the words without choosing one piece in preference to another.