10. Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, boil thoroughly the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
11. Then set it empty upon its coals, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, and that its rust may be consumed.
12. She hath exhausted her labours, yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her: let her rust be in the fire.
13. In thy filthiness is lewdness, for I have purged thee, and thou art not pure. Thou shalt no more be purged from thy filthiness, till I have satisfied my fury upon thee.
14. I Jehovah have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, nor will I repent. According to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
15. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
16. Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet thou shalt not mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
17. Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy turban upon thee, and put thy sandals upon thy feet, and cover not the beard, and eat not the bread of men.
18. --And I spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.
19. And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, which thou doest?
20. And I said to them, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,