1. And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying:
2. Son of man, write thee the name of this day, on which the king of Babylon hath set himself against Jerusalem to day.
3. And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water into it.
4. Heap together into if the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.