Ezekiel 24:1-8 ▼

1 And the word of YHWH came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying:

2 “Son of man, write down for yourself the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege against Jerusalem on this very day.

3 And utter to house the rebellious a parable, and say to them—thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Put on a pot; put it on, and also pour water into it.

4 To gather its pieces to it, every good piece—thigh and shoulder; fill it with the choicest of limbs.

5 Take the choicest of the flock, and pile up the bones under it; bring to a boil the boiling of it, and let seethe the limbs in the midst of it.’

6 Therefore, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Woe to the city of blood, the pot that has rust in it, and its corrosion has not gone out from it! Piece after piece bring out from it; a lot has not fallen on it.

7 For her blood is in her midst; upon a clear place of a rock she set it; she has not poured it out on the ground to cover over it with dust.

8 To cause fury to come up, to avenge with vengeance, I have given her blood upon a clear place of a rock, that it should not be covered.’