Ezekiel 24:12
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Ezekiel 24:12 in other translations
| BSB | It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire. |
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| WEB | She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her. |
| ASV | She hath wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire. |
| YLT | With sorrows she hath wearied herself, And the abundance of her scum goeth not out of her, In the fire is her scum. |
| DARBY | She hath exhausted her labours, yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her: let her rust be in the fire. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. |
What does Ezekiel 24:12 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 24:1-14
The fate of Jerusalem. (Ezek 24:1-14) The extent of the sufferings of the Jews. (Ezek 24:15-27) Verses 1-14 The pot on the fire represented Jerusalem besieged by the Chaldeans: all orders and ranks were within the walls, prepared as a prey for the enemy. They ought to have put away their transgressions, as the scum, which rises by the heat of the fire, is taken from the top of the pot. But they grew worse, and their…
Ezekiel 24:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 24:12
- Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have 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.
- Jeremiah 9:5
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Jeremiah 51:58
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
- Daniel 9:13-14
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
- Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
- Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Habakkuk 2:18-19
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 24:13
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
- Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
- Jeremiah 10:14-15
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Isaiah 47:13
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Isa 47:13; 57:9,10; Jer 2:13; 9:5; 10:14,15; 51:58; Ho 12:1
Hab 2:13,18,19
her great.
6,13; Ge 6:5-7; 8:21; Isa 1:5; Jer 5:3; 44:16,17; Da 9:13,14
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.
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Context
- Ezekiel 24:11
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
- Ezekiel 24:12
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
- Ezekiel 24:13
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
Ezekiel 24:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | En fraude se cansó, y no salió de ella su mucha espuma. En fuego será su espuma consumida. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Elle a lassé les efforts, et la rouille dont elle est pleine ne se détache pas: – au feu sa rouille! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Bemühungen hat er erschöpft, und sein vieler Rost geht nicht von ihm ab; ins Feuer mit seinem Rost! - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Multo labore sudatum est, et non exivit de ea nimia rubigo ejus, neque per ignem. |