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Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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Son of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
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Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
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gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
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Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yes, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
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For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn`t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
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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.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
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Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
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Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
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She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn`t go forth out of her; her rust doesn`t [go forth] by fire.
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In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren`t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
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I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, 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, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.