Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.
Parallel translations
- WEB Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil the meat well, and make the broth thick, and let the bones be burned.
- KJV Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
- NKJV Heap on the wood, Kindle the fire; Cook the meat well, Mix in the spices, And let the cuts be burned up.
- NASB “Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, Cook the meat thoroughly And mix in the spices, And let the bones be burned up.
- NLT Yes, heap on the wood! Let the fire roar to make the pot boil. Cook the meat with many spices, and afterward burn the bones.
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The fire is heaped up until the meat is cooked and even the bones are burned. It pictures the complete consumption of the city in judgment.
Overview
Commands to pile on wood, intensify the heat, and burn even the bones convey total destruction, nothing of the besieged city will be spared. The thoroughness of the burning answers to the depth of Jerusalem's guilt. The parable leaves no room for the false comfort that judgment will be partial or light.
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Cross-references · 4
- Jer 17:3O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
- Jer 20:5I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
- Lam 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
- Lam 2:16All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
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