Ezekiel 24:12

¹⁰ Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.

¹¹ Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

¹³ Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

¹⁴ I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.
KJV: She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
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.
DARBY: She hath exhausted [her] labours, yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her: let her rust be in the fire.
BLB: [With] toiling she has grown weary, and the abundance of her corrosion has not gone out from her—into the fire [with] her corrosion!

ÅB: Trettende arbeid har den voldt meg, og allikevel er dens tykke rust ikke gått av den. I ilden med dens rust!
OTB: Den har slitt meg ut med sine anstrengelser;
dens tunge skitt har ikke blitt fjernet,
ikke engang ved ild.
B1930: Trettende arbeid har den voldt mig, og allikevel er dens tykke rust ikke gått av den. I ilden med dens rust!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
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Jeremiah 9:5
Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
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Jeremiah 2:13
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
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Jeremiah 51:58
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
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Daniel 9:13–14
Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.
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Habakkuk 2:13
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
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Isaiah 1:5
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
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Habakkuk 2:18–19
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
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