7. “‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.
8. You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord GOD.
9. “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgements amongst you.
10. You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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 the Lord, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not 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 GOD! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
14. the Lord’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, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from the Lord. This land has been given to us for a possession.’”