It has tried my patience; ¹  yet its thick rot is not removed ²  from it. Subject its rot to the fire! ³ 

biblegateway Eze 24:12

"She has wearied Me with toil, Yet her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust be in the fire!

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust will not come off. Into the fire with its rust!

"’I have worn myself out trying to clean this pot. Even the fire can’t take away its thick tarnish.

biblegateway Eze 24:12

It has frustrated all efforts; its heavy deposit has not been removed, not even by fire.

She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!

bibleoremus Eze 24:12

In vain I have wearied myself; its thick rust does not depart. To the fire with its rust!

Though you exhaust yourself with your efforts the corrosion is so deep it will not come off; only fire will rid it of corrosion.

biblegateway Eze 24:12

She has grown weary with lies, And her great scum has not gone from her. Let her scum be in the fire!

She hath wearied [herself] with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum [shall be] in the fire.

biblegateway Eze 24:12

It has tried my patience; ¹  yet its thick rot is not removed ²  from it. Subject its rot to the fire! ³ 

¹ tn Heb “(with) toil she has wearied.” The meaning of the statement is unclear in the Hebrew text; some follow the LXX and delete it. The first word in the statement (rendered “toil” in the literal translation above) occurs only here in the OT, and the verb “she has wearied” lacks a stated object. Elsewhere the Hiphil of the verb refers to wearying someone or trying someone’s patience. The feminine subject is apparently the symbolic pot.

² tn Heb “does not go out.”

³ tn Heb “in fire its rust.” The meaning of the expression is unclear. The translation understands the statement as a command to burn the rust away. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:768.