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In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
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Mortal, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
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And utter an allegory to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Set on the pot, set it on, pour in water also;
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put in it the pieces, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.
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Take the choicest one of the flock, pile the logs under it; boil its pieces, seethe also its bones in it.
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Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, the pot whose rust is in it, whose rust has not gone out of it! Empty it piece by piece, making no choice at all.
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For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.