8. You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
9. “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10. You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you will know that I am Yahweh.
11. This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
12. You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
13. When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
14. Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
15. “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’”
16. “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’
17. “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”