A reading from the book of Ezekiel.

In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month,

the word of the Lord came to me.

Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day.

The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day, and utter a parable to the

rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord God, Set on the pot, set it on, pour

in water also. Put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder, fill it with

choice bones. Take the choicest one of the flock, pile the logs under it, boil it well,

seethe also its bones in it. Therefore thus says the Lord God, woe to the bloody city, to the

pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone

out of it. Take out of it piece after peace without making any choice. For the blood she has shed is in her

midst. She put it on the bare rock. She did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.

To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed,

that it may not be covered. Therefore, thus says the Lord God,

Woe to the bloody city.

I also will make the pile great.

Heap on the logs,

kindle the fire, boil the meat well,

mix in the spices,

and let the bones be burned up.

Then set it empty upon the coals that it may become hot,

and its copper may burn, that its uncleanness

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