7. “So this is what the Lord God says: Those people you have killed and left in the middle of the city are like the best meat, and this city is like the cooking pot. But I will force you out of the city.
8. You have feared the sword, but I will bring a sword against you, says the Lord God.
9. I will force you out of the city and hand you over to strangers and punish you.
10. You will die by the sword. I will punish you at the border of Israel so you will know that I am the Lord.
11. This city will not be your cooking pot, and you will not be the best meat in the middle of it. I will punish you at the border of Israel.
12. Then you will know that I am the Lord. You did not live by my rules or obey my laws. Instead, you did the same things as the nations around you.”
13. As I prophesied, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I bowed facedown on the ground and shouted with a loud voice, “Oh no, Lord God! Will you completely destroy the Israelites who are left alive?”
14. The Lord spoke his word to me, saying,
15. “Human, the people still in Jerusalem have spoken about your own relatives and all the people of Israel who are captives with you, saying, ‘They are far from the Lord. This land has been given to us as our property.’