Ezekiel 24:3 Cross References - Leeser

³ And speak concerning the rebellious family a parable, and say unto them, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Set on the pot, set it on, and also pour water into it;

² I will open with a parable my mouth: I will utter riddles out of ancient times;

² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

¹ Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not from me; and that set themselves a ruler, but not by my spirit, in order that they may add sin to sin:

⁹ For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit; and he changed himself to become their enemy, and he fought against them.

¹³ And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A seething pot do I see; and the front thereof is turned from the north.

¹³ Because of the wrath of the Lord shall it not be inhabited, and it shall be wholly desolate: every one that passeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss over all her wounds. ¹⁴ Put yourselves in battle-array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare not the arrows: for against the Lord hath she sinned.

³ And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to rebellious tribes that have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even until this very day.

⁶ And thou, son of man,—thou shalt not be afraid of them, and of their words thou shalt have no fear, though they be briers and thorns with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: of their words be not afraid, and at their presence be not dismayed; for they are a rebellious family.

⁸ But thou, son of man, hear what I am speaking unto thee, Be not thou rebellious like this rebellious family: open thy mouth, and eat what I give unto thee.

⁹ As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: thou shalt not fear them, nor shalt thou be dismayed at their presence, though they be a rebellious family.

³ Who say, The evil is not near; so let us build houses: this city is the pot, and we are the flesh.

⁷ Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Those slain by you whom ye have struck down in the midst of it,—they are the flesh, and this place is the pot; but you are to be removed out of the midst of it.

¹¹ This place shall not be unto you as a pot, so that you should be as flesh in the midst of it; but on the boundary of Israel will I judge you.

² Son of man, in the midst of a rebellious family art thou dwelling, who have eyes to see, and see not; who have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious family.

²⁵ For I am the Lord,—I do speak, and whatever word I do speak shall be done; it shall not be delayed any more; for in your days, O rebellious family, will I speak the word, and I will execute it, saith the Lord Eternal.

² Son of man, put forth a riddle, and propound a parable unto the house of Israel;

¹² Do now say to the rebellious family, Know ye not what these things mean? Say, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took away its king and its princes, and he brought them unto himself to Babylon;

² And say, What a noble lioness was thy mother! among lions did she lie down, in the midst of young lions did she raise her whelps! ³ And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to tear in pieces the prey; even men he devoured. ⁴ And when nations heard of him, he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings unto the land of Egypt. ⁵ Now when she saw that she had long waited, that her hope was lost, she took another one of her whelps, and made him a young lion. ⁶ And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a young lion; and he learned to tear in pieces the prey; even men he devoured. ⁷ And he broke down their palaces, and their cities laid he in ruins: and then was terrified the land, with all that filled it, because of the noise of his roaring. ⁸ Then set themselves the nations against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread over him their net: in their pit was he caught. ⁹ And they put him in a cage with nose-rings in his nose, and they brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into strong-holds, in order that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. ¹⁰ Thy mother was like a vine, if I compare thee to aught, planted by the waters: fruitful and full of boughs was she by reason of many waters. ¹¹ And she had strong branches fit for the sceptres of rulers, and her stature grew up high between the thick-branched trees, and she was seen through her height by means of the multitude of her tendrils. ¹² But she was plucked up in fury, to the ground was she cast down, and the east wind dried up her fruit: and torn off and dried up were her strong branches, a fire consumed them. ¹³ And now is she planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. ¹⁴ And fire is gone out of a branch of her boughs, and hath devoured her fruit, so that there is no more on her a strong branch for a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and it is become a lamentation.

^{49 (21:5)} Then said I, Ah Lord Eternal! they say of me, Behold, he speaketh but in parables!

⁶ Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Woe to the city of blood-guiltiness, to the pot the scum of which is yet in it, and the scum of which is not gone out of it! one of its pieces after the other take out from it: no lot is cast for it.

⁴ On that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a mournful lamentation, and say, “We are utterly wasted: the portion of my people hath he exchanged; how hath he removed it from me! instead of restoring them to us he divideth our fields.”