1. The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month:
2. “Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
3. Recite a proverb to this rebellious house and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:“‘Set on the pot, set it on, pour water in it too;
4. add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece,the thigh and the shoulder;fill it with choice bones.
5. Take the choice bone of the flock,heap up bones under it;boil rapidly,and boil its bones in it.
6. “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:Woe to the city of bloodshed,the pot whose rot is in it,whose rot has not been removed from it!Empty it piece by piece.No lot has fallen on it.
7. For her blood was in it;she poured it on an exposed rock;she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.