Ezekiel 24

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

²Son of man, put down in writing this very day: The king of Babylon let loose the weight of his attack against Jerusalem on this very day.

³And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it:

⁴And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.

⁵Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.

⁶For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

⁷For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

⁸In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.

⁹For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.

¹⁰Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.

¹¹And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away.