Ezekiel 24:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 In vain I have wearied myself; its thick crud does not depart. To the fire with its crud! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition She has wearied herself and Me with toil; yet her great rust and scum go not forth out of her, for however hotly the fire burns, her thick rust and filth will not go out of her by fire. American Standard Version (1901) She hath wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire. Common English Bible It’s a worthless task. Even by fire its great corrosion isn’t removed. Catholic Public Domain Version There has been much sweat and labor, and yet its extensive rust has not gone out of it, not even by fire. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire. |
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.
Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint.
You are wearied with your many consultations; let those who study the heavens stand up and save you, those who gaze at the stars and at each new moon predict what shall befall you.
I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your shameless prostitutions on the hills of the countryside. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?
for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.
O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations only for fire, and they have become weary.
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.
Yet when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness, you did not become clean from your filth; you shall not again be cleansed until I have satisfied my fury upon you.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, the pot whose crud is in it, whose crud has not gone out of it! Empty it piece by piece, making no choice at all.
Ephraim herds the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a treaty with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames and nations weary themselves for nothing?