1. And the word of the Lord came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying:
2. "Son of man, write for yourself the name of this day, on which the king of Babylon was confirmed against Jerusalem today.
3. And you shall speak, through a proverb, a parable to the inciting house. And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Set out a cooking pot; set it out, I say, and put water into it.
4. Pile together within it every morsel, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, the choice pieces and those full of bones.
5. Take the fattest from the flock, and arrange also a heap of bones under it. Its cooking has boiled over, and its bones in its midst have been thoroughly cooked.
6. Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the city of blood, to the cooking pot that has rust in it, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Cast it out piece by piece! No lot has fallen upon it.
7. For her blood is in her midst; she has shed it upon the smoothest rock. She has not shed it upon the ground, so that it could be covered with dust.