6. You made your slain ones numerous in this city, and you have filled its streets with slain ones.” ’
7. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Your slain ones whom you put in its midst, they are the flesh, and it is the pot, and I will bring you out from its midst.
8. The sword you have feared, and the sword I will bring against you!” declares the Lord Yahweh.
9. “And I will bring you out from its midst, and I will give you into the hand of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you.
10. By the sword you will fall at the border of Israel; I will judge you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.
11. It will not be as a pot to you, and so you would be in the midst of it as flesh, for at the border of Israel I will judge you.
12. And you will know that I am Yahweh, whose rules you did not follow, and whose regulations you did not do, but according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you acted.” ’
13. And it happened that as I was prophesying, Pelatiahu the son of Benaiahu died! And I fell on my face, and I cried with a loud voice, and I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, you are making a complete destruction of the remnant of Israel!”
14. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,