3. They say things like, ‘Let's build more houses. This city is like a cooking pot over a fire, and we are the meat, but at least the pot keeps us from being burnt in the fire.’
4. So, Ezekiel, condemn them!”
5. The Lord's Spirit took control of me and told me to tell these leaders:I, the Lord God, know what you leaders are saying.
6. You have murdered so many people that the city is filled with dead bodies!
7. This city is indeed a cooking pot, but the bodies of those you killed are the meat. And so I will force you to leave Jerusalem,
8. and I'll send armies to attack you, just as you fear.
9. Then you will be captured and punished by foreign enemies.