1. In the ninth year, in the tenth month on the tenth day, the word of the Lord came to me:
2. ‘Son of man, record this date, this very date, because the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
3. Tell this rebellious people a parable and say to them: “This is what the Sovereign Lord says:‘ “Put on the cooking pot; put it onand pour water into it.
4. Put into it the pieces of meat,all the choice pieces – the leg and the shoulder.Fill it with the best of these bones;
5. take the pick of the flock.Pile wood beneath it for the bones;bring it to the boiland cook the bones in it.
6. ‘ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:‘ “Woe to the city of bloodshed,to the pot now encrusted,whose deposit will not go away!Take the meat out piece by piecein whatever order it comes.
7. ‘ “For the blood she shed is in her midst:she poured it on the bare rock;she did not pour it on the ground,where the dust would cover it.