Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
The Lord Himself pronounces doom upon Jerusalem, denouncing it as the bloody city under divine judgment. The sentence is carried out by heaping high the fuel for the fire, pressing the figure of the boiling pot to its terrible end. Within that figure the filth and scum left uncleansed in the pot stand for the moral corruption clinging to the city itself. The pieces are not drawn out by lot, for no choosing by chance and no singling out of some for escape is allowed. What falls upon the inhabitants is unsparing destruction, with death for some and captivity for others as the declared judgment takes effect.
The Lord Himself pronounces doom upon Jerusalem, denouncing it as the bloody city under divine judgment. The sentence is carried out by heaping high the fuel for the fire, pressing the figure of the boiling pot to its terrible end. Within that figure the filth and scum left uncleansed in the pot stand for the moral corruption clinging to the city itself. The pieces are not drawn out by lot, for no choosing by chance and no singling out of some for escape is allowed. What falls upon the inhabitants is unsparing destruction, with death for some and captivity for others as the declared judgment takes effect.