4. Therefore, prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man! ”
5. Then the Spirit of the Lord came on me, and He told me, “You are to say: This is what the Lord says: That is what you are thinking, house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your mind.
6. You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with the dead.
7. “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: The slain you have put within it are the meat, and the city is the pot, but I will remove you from it.
8. You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
9. “I will bring you out of the city and hand you over to foreigners; I will execute judgments against you.
10. You will fall by the sword, and I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
11. The city will not be a pot for you, and you will not be the meat within it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,
12. so you will know that I am Yahweh, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not practiced. Instead, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
13. Now while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out with a loud voice: “Oh, Lord God! Will You bring to an end the remnant of Israel? ”
14. The word of the Lord came to me again:
15. “Son of man, your own relatives, those who have the right to redeem you, and the entire house of Israel, all of them, are those that the residents of Jerusalem have said this to, ‘Stay away from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession.’