Ezekiel 24:12 Cross References - Rotherham

¹² With toils, hath she wearied herself,––Since her abundant scum will not go out of her, into the fire, with her scum!

⁵ Then Yahweh saw that, great, was the wickedness of man in the earth, and that, every purpose of the devices of his heart, was only wicked all the day;
⁶ and it grieved Yahweh, that he had made man in the earth,––and he took sorrow unto his heart. ⁷ And Yahweh said––I must wipe off man whom I created, from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens,––for I am grieved that I made them.

²¹ And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground, for man’s sake, although, the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth,––neither will I, again, any more, smite every living thing, as I have done.

⁵ Why should ye be smitten any more? Ye would again, turn aside! The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint:

¹³ Thou hast worn thyself out with the mass of thy consultations,––Let them take their stand, I pray thee, that they may save thee––The dividers of the heavens––The gazers at the stars, They who make known by new moons, Somewhat of the things which shall come upon thee.

⁹ And hast gone to the king with oil, And hast multiplied thy perfumes,––And hast sent thy messengers afar, And. . . lowered thyself as far as hades! ¹⁰ With the length of thy journey, thou wast wearied, Thou didst not say, Hopeless! The reviving of thy power, thou didst find, For this cause, hast thou not become sick.

¹³ For, two wicked things, have my people committed,––Me, have they forsaken, a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves, cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.

³ O Yahweh! thine own eyes, are they not directed to fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, Yet have they not grieved, Thou hast consumed them––They have refused to receive correction,––They have made their faces bolder than a cliff, They have refused to return.

⁵ Yea, every one, of his neighbour, maketh a dupe, And, truth, they do not speak,––They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, In acting perversely, they have wearied themselves.

¹⁴ Every son of earth hath become too brutish, to discern, Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame, by a graven image,––For, a falsehood, is his molten image, Seeing there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries,––In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.

¹⁶ As touching the word which thou hast spoken unto us, in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to hearken unto thee; ¹⁷ but, we will certainly do, the whole thing that hath gone forth out of our own mouth, by burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out to her drink–offerings, just as, we and our fathers, and our kings and our princes, did, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,––then were we filled with bread, and became prosperous, and, calamity, saw we none;

⁵⁸ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––The broad walls of Babylon, shall be, laid utterly bare, And, her lofty gates, with fire, shall be burned,––And peoples shall labour for emptiness, And, populations, for the fire, shall weary themselves.

⁶ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed. The caldron whose scum is in it, and, whose scum, hath not gone out of it: Piece by piece, bring it out, There hath fallen thereon no lot.

¹³ In thine uncleanness, is lewdness; because I purified thee. and thou wast not purified, from thine uncleanness, thou shalt not be purified any more, until I have let mine indignation rest upon thee.

¹³ Even as written in the law of Moses, hath, all this calamity, come in upon us,––yet entreated we not the face of Yahweh our God, by turning away from our iniquities, and by getting intelligence in thy truth. ¹⁴ Therefore hath Yahweh, kept watch, for the calamity, and brought it in upon us,––for righteous is Yahweh our God concerning all his deeds which he hath done, seeing that we had not hearkened unto his voice.

¹ Ephraim, feedeth on wind, and pursueth the east wind, all the day, falsehood and force, doth he magnify,––and, a covenant with Assyria, would they solemnize, and, oil into Egypt, must be borne along.

¹³ Lo! is it not from Yahweh of hosts––that peoples labour for fire, and, populations, for emptiness, weary themselves?

¹⁸ What hath a carved image, profited, though the fashioner thereof, carved it? a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood,––though the fashioner of his fashioned thing trusted therein? that men should make Dumb Nonentities! ¹⁹ Alas! for him who saith to wood, Awake, bestir thee! to a silent stone, he, shall teach! Though he is overlaid with gold and silver, yet, no spirit whatsoever, is in him!