Put the pot^(B) on the fire—
put it on,
and then pour water into it!
⁴ Place the pieces of meat in it,
every good piece—
thigh and shoulder.
Fill it with choice bones.
⁵ Take the choicest of the flock
and also pile up the fuel^[a] under it.
Bring it to a boil
and cook the bones in it.

Woe to the city of bloodshed,^(C)
the pot that has corrosion inside it,
and its corrosion has not come out of it!
Empty it piece by piece;
lots should not be cast for its contents.
⁷ For the blood she shed^[b] is still within her.
She put it out on the bare rock;
she didn’t pour it on the ground
to cover it with dust.^(D)
8 In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance,^(E)
I have put her blood on the bare rock,
so that it would not be covered.

Woe to the city of bloodshed!^(F)
I myself will make the pile of kindling large.
¹⁰ Pile on the logs and kindle the fire!
Cook the meat well
and mix in the spices!^[c][d]
Let the bones be burned!
¹¹ Set the empty pot on its coals
so that it becomes hot and its copper glows.
Then its impurity will melt inside it;
its corrosion will be consumed.^(G)
12 It has frustrated every effort;^[e]
its thick corrosion will not come off.
Into the fire with its corrosion!
¹³ Because of the depravity of your uncleanness—
since I tried to purify you,
but you would not be purified from your uncleanness—
you will not be pure again
until I have satisfied my wrath on you.^(H)

² You hate good and love evil.
You tear off people’s skin^(A)
and strip their flesh from their bones.
³ You eat the flesh^(B) of my people
after you strip their skin from them
and break their bones.
You chop them up^(C)
like flesh for the cooking pot,
like meat in a cauldron.”