6. Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
7. Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and it is the caldron; but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8. Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, said the Lord GOD.
9. And I will bring you out of the midst thereof and deliver you into the hands of strangers and will execute judgments in you.
10. Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
11. This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I must judge you in the border of Israel:
12. And ye shall know that I am the Lord; for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither have ye acted according to my judgments, but according to the judgments of the Gentiles that are round about you.
13. And it came to pass, as I was prophesying that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face and cried with a loud voice and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
14. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,