Ezekiel 24:3-12

3Utter a parable concerning the rebellious house. Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Put on the pot, put it on and then pour water into it.

4Gather the pieces into it, every good piece —thigh and shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.

5Take the choicest of the flock and pile the bones under it; bring it to a rolling boil, so that its bones also seethe in it.’”

6Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Oy to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, whose rust will not come off it! Draw it out piece by piece —no lot would fall for it.

7For her bloodshed is in her midst. She put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.

8So it stirs up wrath for taking vengeance. I have put her blood on the bare rock, that it may not be covered.”

9Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Oy to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile great,

10heaping on the wood, kindling the fire, boiling the meat well, and mixing in spices. But let the bones be burned!

11I will set it empty upon the coals until it gets hot and its copper scorches, so its impurity will be melted, its corrosion consumed.

12It has wearied toil, yet its thick rust will not come out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!