8. “You have feared the sword, and I bring a sword upon you,” declares the Master יהוה.
9. “And I shall bring you out of its midst, and give you into the hands of strangers, and execute judgments on you.
10. “By the sword you fall. At the border of Yisra’ĕl I judge you. And you shall know that I am יהוה.
11. “This city is not your cooking pot, nor are you the meat in its midst. At the border of Yisra’ĕl I judge you.
12. “And you shall know that I am יהוה, for you have not walked in My laws nor executed My right-rulings, but have done according to the rulings of the gentiles which are all around you.” ’ ”
13. And it came to be, while I was prophesying, that Pelatyahu son of Benayah died. And I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice, and said, “Ah, Master יהוה! Are You making an end of the remnant of Yisra’ĕl?”
14. Then the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
15. “Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your kinsmen, and all the house of Yisra’ĕl, all of it, are those about whom the inhabitants of Yerushalayim said, ‘Keep far from יהוה, this land has been given to us as a possession.’
16. “Therefore say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Although I have sent them far off among the gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the lands, yet I was for them a set-apart place for a little while in the lands to which they came.” ’