1. The Lord spoke his word to me in the ninth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month. He said:
2. “Human, write down today’s date, this very date. The king of Babylon has surrounded Jerusalem this very day.
3. And tell a story to the people who refuse to obey me. Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord God says:Put on the pot; put it onand pour water in it.
4. Put in the pieces of meat,the best pieces—the legs and the shoulders.Fill it with the best bones.