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the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Wycliffe Bible

Ezekiel 24:12

It was swat bi myche trauel, and the ouer greet rust therof yede not out therof, nether bi fier.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ezekiel;   Instruction;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Allegory;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Rust;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fire;   Scum;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Rust;   Scum;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It has frustrated every effort;its thick corrosion will not come off.Into the fire with its corrosion!
Hebrew Names Version
She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
King James Version
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
English Standard Version
She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!
New American Standard Bible
"She has wearied Me with work, Yet her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust be in the fire!
New Century Version
But efforts to clean the pot have failed. Its heavy rust cannot be removed, even in the fire.
Amplified Bible
"She has wearied Me with toil, Yet her great rust has not left her; Her thick rust and filth will not be burned away by fire [no matter how hot the flame].
World English Bible
She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
She hath wearied her selfe with lyes, and her great skomme went not out of her: therefore her skomme shall be consumed with fire.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"She has wearied Me with toil, Yet her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust be in the fire!
Legacy Standard Bible
She has wearied Me with toil,Yet her great rust has not gone from her;Let her rust be in the fire!
Berean Standard Bible
It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.
Contemporary English Version
I've tried everything else. Now the rust must be burned away.
Complete Jewish Bible
But the effort is in vain: its layers of scum will not leave it; so into the fire with its scum!
Darby Translation
She hath exhausted [her] labours, yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her: let her rust be in the fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
"‘Jerusalem might work hard to scrub away her stains. But that ‘rust' will not go away! Only the fire of punishment will remove it.
George Lamsa Translation
She has become like rotten figs, and her great iniquities have not gone out of her; her vengeance shall be in the fire.
Good News Translation
although all that corrosion will not disappear in the flames.
Lexham English Bible
Through effort she has caused weariness; its thick rust went not out of it. Its rust! Into the fire with its rust!
Literal Translation
She is wearied with toil, and the increase of her rust did not go out, her rust will be in the fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But it will not go off, there is so moch off it: the rustinesse must be brent out.
American Standard Version
She hath wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire.
Bible in Basic English
I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
It hath wearied itself with toil; yet its great filth goeth not forth out of it, yea, its noisome filth.
King James Version (1611)
She hath wearied herselfe with lies, and her great scumme went not forth out of her: her scumme shall be in the fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She hath weeried her selfe with labour, yet her great scum is not gone of her, in the fire her scum [must be consumed.]
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and her abundant scum may not come forth of her.
English Revised Version
She hath wearied herself with toil: yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire.
Update Bible Version
It has frustrated the efforts [to clean it]; yet her great rust does not go forth out of her; her rust [does not go forth] by fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
She hath wearied [herself] with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum [shall be] in the fire.
New English Translation
It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!
New King James Version
She has grown weary with lies, And her great scum has not gone from her. Let her scum be in the fire!
New Living Translation
But it's hopeless; the corruption can't be cleaned out. So throw it into the fire.
New Life Bible
But it has been all for nothing. Its rust has not left it, not even by fire.
New Revised Standard
In vain I have wearied myself; its thick rust does not depart. To the fire with its rust!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With toils, hath she wearied herself, - Since her abundant scum will not go out of her, into the fire, with her scum!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire.
Revised Standard Version
In vain I have wearied myself; its thick rust does not go out of it by fire.
Young's Literal Translation
[With] sorrows she hath wearied herself, And the abundance of her scum goeth not out of her, In the fire [is] her scum.

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of the Lord was maad to me, in the nynthe yeer, and in the tenthe monethe, in the tenthe dai of the monethe, 2 and he seide, Thou, sone of man, write to thee the name of this dai, in which the king of Babiloyne is confermed ayens Jerusalem to dai. 3 And thou schalt seie bi a prouerbe a parable to the hous, terrere to wraththe, and thou schalt speke to hem, The Lord God seith these thingis, Sette thou a brasun pot, sette thou sotheli, and putte thou watir in to it. Take thou a beeste ful fat; 4 gadere thou togidere the gobetis therof in it, ech good part, and the hipe, and the schuldre, chosun thingis and ful of boonys. 5 Also dresse thou heepis of boonys vndur it; and the sething therof buylide out, and the boonys therof weren sodun in the myddis therof. 6 Therfor the Lord God seith these thingis, Wo to the citee of bloodis, to the pot whos rust is ther ynne, and the rust therof yede not out of it; caste thou out it bi partis, and bi hise partis; lot felle not on it. 7 For whi the blood therof is in the myddis therof; he schede it out on a ful cleer stoon, he schedde not it out on erthe, 8 that it mai be hilid with dust, that Y schulde bringe in myn indignacioun, and `a venge bi veniaunce; Y yaf the blood therof on a ful cleer stoon, that it schulde not be hilid. 9 Therfor the Lord God seith these thingis, Wo to the citee of bloodis, whos brennyng Y schal make greet; 10 gadere thou togidire boonys, whiche Y schal kyndle with fier; fleischis schulen be wastid, and al the settyng togidere schal be sodun, and boonys schulen faile.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wearied: Isaiah 47:13, Isaiah 57:9, Isaiah 57:10, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 9:5, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 10:15, Jeremiah 51:58, Hosea 12:1, Habakkuk 2:13, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19

her great: Ezekiel 24:6, Ezekiel 24:13, Genesis 6:5-7, Genesis 8:21, Isaiah 1:5, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:17, Daniel 9:13, Daniel 9:14

her scum: The pot being polluted with the scum, must be heated, melted, and even burned with fire till purified; that is, Jerusalem shall be entirely levelled with the ground, as nothing short of this will purify it from the relics of its idolatrous abominations.

Reciprocal: Lamentations 1:9 - filthiness

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
And so whanne these thingis weren don, the word of the Lord was maad to Abram bi a visioun, and seide, Abram, nyle thou drede, Y am thi defender, and thi meede is ful greet.
Genesis 24:7
the Lord of heuene that took me fro the hows of my fadir, and fro the lond of my birthe, which spak to me, and swoor, and seide, Y schal yyue this lond to thi seed, he schal sende his aungel bifore thee, and thou schalt take fro thennus a wijf to my sone; forsothe if the womman nyle sue thee,
Genesis 24:8
thou schalt not be holdun bi the ooth; netheles lede not ayen my sone thidur.
Genesis 24:10
And he took ten camels of the floc of his lord, and yede forth, and bar with him of alle the goodis of his lord; and he yede forth, and cam to Mesopotanye, to the citee of Nachor.
Genesis 24:11
And whanne he hadde maad the camels to reste with out the citee, bisidis the pit of watir, in the euentid, in that tyme in which wymmen ben wont to go out to drawe watir,
Genesis 24:16
a damysel ful comeli, and faireste virgyn, and vnknowun of man. Sotheli sche cam doun to the welle, and fillide the watir pot, and turnide ayen.
Genesis 24:17
And the seruaunt mette hir, and seide, Yyue thou to me a litil of the watir of thi pot to drynke.
Genesis 24:27
and worschipide the Lord, and seide, Blessid be the Lord God of my lord Abraham, which God took not aweie his mersy and treuthe fro my lord, and ledde me bi riyt weie in to the hous of the brother of my lord.
Genesis 24:42
Therfor Y cam to day to the welle of watir, and Y seide, Lord God of my lord Abraham, if thou hast dressid my weie in which Y go now, lo!
Genesis 24:48
and lowliche Y worschipide the Lord, and Y blessid the Lord God of my lord Abraham, which God ledde me bi riyt weie, that Y schulde take the douytir of the brothir of my lord to his sone.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She hath wearied herself with lies,.... With serving idols, which were lying vanities; by trusting to the alliances of neighbouring nations, which deceived her; or by committing sin, in which there was no satisfaction; or it may be understood of wearying of God with their sins, and particularly with her lying promises of repentance and reformation:

and her great scum went not forth out of her; notwithstanding her promises; or notwithstanding the admonitions given, and the chastisements inflicted on her, yet she continued hardened in her sins, impenitent and unreformed:

her scum shall be in the fire; like a pot that boils over, its scum falls into the fire, and is consumed there; and in no other way, but by the fire of divine judgments, or the burning of the city, could the wickedness thereof be consumed. The Targum is,

"and they shall not go out of her that work iniquity; in the fire shall she be burnt, because of the multitude of her sins.''


 
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