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¹ Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,² Son of man, write for yourself the name of the day, [even] of this very same day: the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this very same day.³ And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the cauldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:⁴ gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.⁵ Take the choice of the flock, and also pile the bones under it; make it boil well; yes, the bones thereof were boiled in the midst of it.⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust has not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot has fallen on it.⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.⁸ That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.¹⁰ Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.¹¹ Then set it empty on the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the bronze thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.¹² It has frustrated the efforts [to clean it]; yet her great rust does not go forth out of her; her rust [does not go forth] by fire.¹³ In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you were not cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness anymore, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.¹⁴ I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, they shall judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵ Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,¹⁶ Son of man, look, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.¹⁷ Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headtire on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat the bread of men.¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.¹⁹ And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?²⁰ Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,²¹ Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.²² And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.²³ And your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.²⁴ Thus Ezekiel shall be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do: when this comes, then you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.²⁵ And you, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,²⁶ that in that day he that escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?²⁷ In that day your mouth shall be opened to him that has escaped, and you shall speak, and be mute no more: so you shall be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.