Ezekiel 24:3 Cross References - Rotherham

³ Put thou forth, therefore, against the perverse house, a parable, and say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh: Set on the caldron, set it on, Moreover also, pour into it water:

² I will open, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity; ––

² Hear, O heavens, And give ear, O earth, for, Yahweh, hath spoken:––Sons, have I brought up, and advanced, And, they, have rebelled against me.

¹ Alas! for sons who are rebellious, Declareth Yahweh. Executing a purpose, but not from me, And pouring out a libation, but not from my spirit,––That they may add sin to sin:

⁹ That it is, a rebellious people, Sons, apt at deceiving,––Sons, unwilling to hear the law of Yahweh:

¹⁰ But, they, rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit,––And so he turned against them as an enemy, He himself, fought against them.

¹³ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, a second time, saying, What canst thou see? And I said, A boiling caldron, can I see, with, the front thereof, on the North.

¹³ Because of the vexation of Yahweh, she shall not be inhabited, But shall become a complete, desolation,––Every one passing by Babylon, shall be astonished and hiss, over all her plagues. ¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, All ye who tread the bow, Shoot at her, do not spare so much as an arrow,––For, against Yahweh, hath she sinned.

³ And he said unto me––Son of man, I, am sending thee, unto the sons of Israel, unto rebellious, nations, which have rebelled against me,––they, and their fathers, have transgressed against me, until this very day;

⁶ But, thou, son of man, Be not afraid of them, Nor, of their words, be afraid, Though, thorns and thistles, are about thee, And, amongst prickly plants, thou dost dwell, Of their words, be not afraid, nor, At their faces, be thou dismayed, For, a perverse house, they are!

⁸ Thou, therefore, son of man, hear what I, am speaking unto thee, become not perverse, like the perverse house,––open thy mouth, and eat that which I, am giving unto thee.

⁹ As an adamant, harder than flint, have I made thy forehead,––thou shalt not fear them, neither shalt thou be dismayed at their faces, For, a perverse house, they are!

³ who are saying, Not near! let us build houses,––It, is the caldron, and, we, are the flesh!

⁷ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Your slain, whom ye have laid in her midst, They, are the flesh, and, She, is the caldron,––when, ye, are taken out of her midst.

¹¹ This city, shall not serve you for a caldron, Neither shall, ye, serve in the midst thereof, for flesh,––Near the boundary of Israel, will I judge you.

² Son of man, In the midst of a perverse house, dost thou, dwell,––Who have eyes, to see––and have not seen, Ears, have they to hear––and have no heard, For, a perverse house, they are.

²⁵ For, I, Yahweh, will speak whatsoever word I please to speak, And it shall be done, It shall not be delayed any more,––For, in your own days, O perverse house, will I speak a word, and perform it, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

² Son of man, Put thou forth a riddle, And speak thou a parable,––Unto the house of Israel:

¹² Say, I pray thee, unto the perverse house, Know ye not what these things are? Say thou, Lo! the King of Babylon entered Jerusalem, And took her king and her princes, And brought them unto him in Babylon;

² and thou shalt say––How was, thy mother, a lioness! Between lions, she lay down,––In the midst of young lions, She nourished her whelps; ³ And she reared up one of her whelps––A young lion, he became, And he learned to rend prey, Men, he devoured. ⁴ Then nations, heard of him, In their pit, was he caught,––So they brought him with hooks, Into the land of Egypt. ⁵ And she saw she had waited, Lost, was her hope, Then took she another of her whelps, A young lion, she made him. ⁶ Yea he went to and fro amidst lions, A young lion, he became,––And he learned to rend prey, Men, he devoured; ⁷ And he injured his widows, And, their cities, laid waste,––And deserted, was the land, and its fulness, At the noise of his roaring. ⁸ Then, set upon him, the nations round about, From the provinces,––And spread over him their net, In their pit, was he caught; ⁹ And they put him in a cage with hooks, And brought him to Babylon’s king,––They brought him into strong–holds, That his noise might be heard no more, Among the mountains of Israel.
¹⁰ Thy mother, [was] like a vine of thy vineyard, By waters, was planted,––Fruitful and full of branches, she became, By reason of waters abundant; ¹¹ And they served her as staves of power, For the sceptres of rulers, And high, became the stature thereof, With its interwoven foliage,––And it was seen by its height, By its multitude of branches. ¹² Then was she uprooted in indignation, To the ground, was she cast, And, an east wind, dried up her fruit,––Broken off and withered, were her staves of power, A fire, devoured them. ¹³ Now, therefore, is she planted in a desert,––In a land parched and dry; ¹⁴ And there hath gone forth a fire out of her staves of rods, Her fruit, hath it devoured, And there is in her no staff of power, As a sceptre to bear rule. A dirge, it is, and hath been made, a dirge.

⁴⁹ Then said I, Ah! My Lord, Yahweh: They, are saying of me, Is, not he a, putter forth of parables?

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.

⁴ In that day, shall one take up against you a by–word, and lament a lamentable lamentation, saying––we are made, utterly desolate, the portion of my people, he passeth to others,––How doth he set me aside! To an apostate, our fields, doth he apportion.

¹² And they were seeking, to secure, him,––and were in fear of the multitude; for they perceived that, against them, the parable he had spoken. And, leaving him, they departed.

¹⁰ And, he, said––Unto you, hath it been given, to get to know the sacred secrets of the kingdom of God; but, unto the rest, in parables,––in order that, seeing, they may not see, and, hearing, they may not understand.

⁵¹ Ye stiff–necked and uncircumcised in hearts and in ears, ye, always, against the Holy Spirit, do strive! As your fathers, ye also: