Ezekiel 24:3
And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water into it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Psalms 78:2I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.
Isaiah 29:2And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.
Isaiah 30:9For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God.
Jeremiah 1:13And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying: What seest thou? I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north.
Ezekiel 2:2And the spirit entered into me after that he spoke to me, and he set me upon my feet: and I heard him speaking to me,
Ezekiel 2:5If so be they at least will hear, and if so be they will forbear, for they are a provoking house: and they shall know that there hath been a prophet in the midst of them.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:2-15
The Parable of the Boiling Pot; The Explanation of the Parable. ( b. c. 590.) 1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. 3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it,… Read the whole commentary →