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Take the flock’s best animal;
    arrange the wood[a] beneath it.
Bring it to a rolling boil,
    and cook its bones in it.

The Lord God proclaims: Horror! You bloody city, you corroded pot; pot whose corrosion can’t be removed! Empty it piece by piece. She is rejected[b] because her blood is still with her. She didn’t pour it out on the ground so that it could be covered with dirt, but she spread it out on a bare rock.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:5 Or bones
  2. Ezekiel 24:6 Or the lot did not fall to her

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