7 "The blood Jerusalem's people spilled is inside its walls. They poured it out on a bare rock. They did not pour it on the ground. If they had, dust would have covered it up.
8 So I put their blood on the bare rock. I did not want it to be covered up. I poured my burning anger out on them. I paid them back."
9 So the Lord and King said to me, "How terrible it will be for this city! It has so many murderers in it. I too will pile the wood high.
10 So pile on the wood. Light the fire. Cook the meat well. Mix in the spices. Let the bones be blackened.
11 Then set the empty pot on the coals. Let it get hot. Let its copper glow. Then what is not pure in it will melt. Its scum will be burned away.
12 But it can't be cleaned up. Its thick scum has not been removed. Even fire can't burn it off.
13 "Jerusalem, you are really impure. I tried to clean you up. But you would not let me make you pure. So you will not be clean again until my burning anger against you has calmed down.