4. Take some of these and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire. Because of this, fire will flash out against the whole house of Israel.
5. Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem! I placed it in the midst of the nations, surrounded by foreign lands.
6. But it rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the foreign lands around it; they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes.
7. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because you have caused more uproar than the nations surrounding you, not living by my statutes nor carrying out my judgments, nor even living by the ordinances of the surrounding nations;
8. therefore, thus says the Lord God: See, I am coming against you! I will carry out judgments among you while the nations look on.
9. Because of all your abominations I will do to you what I have never done before, the like of which I will never do again.
10. Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.
11. Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your atrocities and all your abominations, I will surely withdraw and not look upon you with pity nor spare you.