1 The word of Adonai came to me in the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year saying:
2 “Son of man, record this date, this exact day—this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.
3 Utter a parable concerning the rebellious house. Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Put on the pot, put it on and then pour water into it.
4 Gather the pieces into it, every good piece —thigh and shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.
5 Take the choicest of the flock and pile the bones under it; bring it to a rolling boil, so that its bones also seethe in it.’”
6 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Oy to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, whose rust will not come off it! Draw it out piece by piece —no lot would fall for it.
7 For her bloodshed is in her midst. She put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.