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 on and 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;