11. This city will not protect you as a pot protects the meat in it. I will punish you wherever you may be in the land of Israel.
12. You will know that I am the Lord and that while you were keeping the laws of the neighbouring nations, you were breaking my laws and disobeying my commands.”
13. While I was prophesying, Pelatiah dropped dead. I threw myself face downwards on the ground and shouted, “No, Sovereign Lord! Are you going to kill everyone left in Israel?”
14. The Lord spoke to me.
15. “Mortal man,” he said, “the people who live in Jerusalem are talking about you and your fellow-Israelites who are in exile. They say, ‘The exiles are too far away to worship the Lord. He has given us possession of the land.’