6. You have killed many people in this city and have filled its streets with corpses.
7. “So this is what the Almighty Lord says: The corpses that you put in the middle of the city are the meat, and the city is the cooking pot. I will force you out of the city.
8. You are afraid of swords, so I will bring swords to attack you, declares the Almighty Lord.
9. I will force you out of the city. I will hand you over to foreigners, and I will punish you.
10. You will die in battle. I will judge you at Israel’s borders. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
11. The city will not be your cooking pot, and you will not be the meat in it. I will judge you at Israel’s borders.
12. Then you will know that I am the Lord. You haven’t lived by my laws, and you haven’t obeyed my rules. You have followed the standards set by the nations around you.”
13. While I was prophesying, Benaiah’s son Pelatiah died.I immediately bowed down and cried out, “Almighty Lord, will you completely destroy all the remaining people in Israel?”
14. Then the Lord spoke his word to me. He said,
15. “Son of man, the people who live in Jerusalem are talking about your own relatives and about the entire nation of Israel. The people who live in Jerusalem say, ‘They are far away from the Lord. This land has been given to us as our own property.’
16. “So tell them, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, I have been their sanctuary for a little while among the countries where they’ve gone.’
17. “So tell them, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will bring them together from the nations and gather them from the countries where I’ve scattered them. I will give them the land of Israel.