Ezekiel 24:12
What does Ezekiel 24:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 24:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000She hath wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire.
KJV
King James Version · 1611She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901She hath wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862<FI> With<Fi> sorrows she hath wearied herself, And the abundance of her scum goeth not out of her, In the fire <FI>is<Fi> her scum.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890She hath exhausted [her] labours, yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her: let her rust be in the fire.
Context
v.11Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
v.12This passage
v.13In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 51:58
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
- Habakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
- Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 8:21
And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for that the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
- Ezekiel 24:6
Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.
- Jeremiah 5:3
O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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