6. You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
7. “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.
8. You fear the sword, and the sword is what I will bring against you, declares the Sovereign Lord.
9. I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners and inflict punishment on you.
10. You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
11. This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.
12. And you will know that I am the Lord, for you have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.”
13. Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?”
14. The word of the Lord came to me: