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10 Pile up the wood!
    Make the fire burn hot.
Boil the meat!
    Mix the seasonings.
Burn those bones to a crisp!
11 Make the pot stand empty on the coals
    until its bronze glows red,[a]
its rust can be scoured off,[b]
    and its dross completely removed.
12 The pot[c] wearies me,[d]
    but its thick[e] rust won’t come off,
        even with fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:11 Lit. its copper burns hot
  2. Ezekiel 24:11 Or is poured out
  3. Ezekiel 24:12 Lit. She
  4. Ezekiel 24:12 The Heb. lacks me
  5. Ezekiel 24:12 Lit. great