These men say, ‘We will be building our houses again very soon. \{We are as safe in this city as\} meat in a pot!’
Ezekiel 11:11 - Easy To Read Version Yes, this place will be the cooking pot. And you will be the meat cooking in it! I will punish you here in Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This city shall not be your boiling pot, neither shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you at the border or outside of Israel; American Standard Version (1901) This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; I will judge you in the border of Israel; Common English Bible The city won’t be your cooking pot, and you won’t be the meat in it. At Israel’s borders, I will judge you. Catholic Public Domain Version This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not be like meat in its midst. I will judge you within the borders of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This shall not be as a caldron to you, and you shall not be as flesh in the midst thereof: I will judge you in the borders of Israel. |
These men say, ‘We will be building our houses again very soon. \{We are as safe in this city as\} meat in a pot!’
Tell this story to the family that refuses to obey (Israel). Tell them these things, ‘The Lord my Master says this:
“So the Lord my Master says these things:\par ‘It will be bad for \{Jerusalem\}.\par It will be bad for that city of murderers.\par Jerusalem is like a pot with rust on it.\par And those spots of rust can’t be removed!\par \{That pot is not clean, so you must\}\par take every piece of meat out of the pot!\par \{Don’t eat that meat!\}\par And don’t let \{the priests\} choose any\par \{of that ruined meat\}.\par