All this allegory contains woeful and heavy tidings, misery and desolation to them that are represented by it.
The bloody city; see Eze_22:2,3; Jerusalem, which is this pot.
Whose scum is therein; filthiness, her abominations, all her lewdness, are still within. her; they have not been punished, restrained, or cast out by the execution of just and good laws; but the citizens have with obstinacy, impenitence, and with impudence continued in them.
Whose scum is not gone out of it; the same thing repeated for confirming what was said.
Bring it out piece by piece; let them know it shall be a lingering destruction to them, yet a total, one piece after another, till all be consumed.
Let no lot fall upon it; lots are for saving some, and determining who they shall be; but here shall no such discrimination be made, no sparing any and slaying others by lot, who do not die shall go into captivity.