Ezekiel 24:3 Cross References - NSB

³ »Speak a parable to the rebellious house. Say to them: The Lord Jehovah says, »Put on the cooking pot, put it on and also pour water in it.

² I will open my mouth in an illustration. I will utter dark sayings of old,

² Listen, heaven, and pay attention, earth! Jehovah (YHWH) has spoken: »I raised my children and helped them grow, but they have rebelled against me.

¹ »Suffer you unwilling children,« says Jehovah. »You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.

⁹ These people are rebellious and deceitful children. They refuse to listen to Jehovah’s Law.

¹⁰ But they rebelled and grieved (offended and hurt) his Holy Spirit. So he turned against them as their enemy. He fought against them.

¹³ Again Jehovah asked: »What do you see?« I answered: »I see a boiling pot, and its top is tilted away from the north.«

¹³ »No one will live in Babylon because of Jehovah’s anger. It will be completely abandoned. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and hiss at all its wounds. ¹⁴ »Take up your positions around Babylon, all you archers with bows. Shoot at it and do not save any arrows. For the people of Babylon have sinned against Jehovah.

³ He said: »Son of man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are people from a nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this day.

⁶ »Son of man, do not be afraid of them or the things they say. Do not be afraid, even though thorns and thistles are around you and you live among scorpions. Do not let the things they say frighten you. Do not be terrified in their presence even though they are rebellious people.

⁸ »But you, son of man, listen to what I say. Do not be rebellious like those rebellious people. Open your mouth and eat what I give you.«

⁹ »I will make you as hard as a diamond, harder than flint stone. Do not be afraid of them. Do not be terrified in their presence, even though they are rebellious people.«

³ »They say: ‘It is almost time to rebuild houses. This city is a cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

⁷ »I, the Lord Jehovah, say to you: ‘This city is a cooking pot all right, but what is the meat? The corpses of those you have killed! You will not be here. I will throw you out of the city!’«

¹¹ ‘»This city will not protect you the way a cooking pot protects the meat in it. I will punish you wherever you may be in the land of Israel.

² »Son of man, you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they cannot see. They have ears, but they cannot hear because they are rebellious people.

²⁵ »I Jehovah will speak. Everything that I say will happen without any more delay. I will say something, and it will happen during your rebellious lifetime,« declares the Almighty God Jehovah.

² »Son of man, tell this riddle. Give this illustration to the nation of Israel.

¹² »Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Say, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes and brought them to him in Babylon.

² »Say: ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs. ³ ‘»She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men. ⁴ The nations heard about him. He was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt. ⁵ ‘»When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion. ⁶ ‘»He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men. ⁷ ‘»He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. His roaring terrified the residents of the land. ⁸ ‘»Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit. ⁹ ‘»With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison. Therefore his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel. ¹⁰ ‘»Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water. It was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water. ¹¹ ‘»Its branches were strong and fit for a ruler’s scepter. It towered high above the thick foliage, conspicuous for its height and for its many branches. ¹² ‘»It was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel. It was stripped of its fruit. Its strong branches withered and fire consumed them. ¹³ ‘»Now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and thirsty land. ¹⁴ ‘»Fire spread from one of its main branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it fit for a ruler’s scepter. This is a song of grief and is to be used as a song of grief.’«

⁴⁹ Then I said: Oh no! Lord Jehovah, no! The people already say that I am only telling stories (a figure of speech or a parable).

⁶ »Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Woe to the bloody city, To the cooking pot in which there is rust and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making a choice.

⁴ »In that day they will taunt you and speak mournfully with sorrow and much grief: ‘We are utterly ruined! He exchanged the portion of my people and removed it from me. He divided our fields and gave them to the apostate.«’

¹² They tried to capture him but feared the crowd. They perceived that he spoke the illustration against them. So they left him and went away.

¹⁰ He said: »You are meant to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. I speak to the rest in illustrations, that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand.

⁵¹ »You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.