³who are saying, ‘The building of houses is not near; the city is the pot, and we are the flesh.’ ⁴Therefore prophesy against them! Prophesy, son of man!”^d

⁵And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, “Say, ‘thus says Yahweh: “This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them,^e the thoughts of your spirit. ⁶You made your slain ones numerous in this city, and you have filled its streets with slain ones.” ’^f ⁷Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Your slain ones whom you put in its midst, they are the flesh, and it is the pot, and I^g will bring you out from its midst. ⁸The sword you have feared, and the sword I will bring against you!” declares^h the Lord Yahweh. ⁹“And I will bring you out from its midst, and I will give you into the hand of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you. ¹⁰By the sword you will fall at the border of Israel; I will judge you, and you will know that I am Yahweh. ¹¹It will not be as a pot to you, and so you would beⁱ in the midst of it as flesh, for at the border of Israel I will judge you. ¹²And you will know that I am Yahweh, whose^j rules you did not follow, and whose^k regulations you did not do, but according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you acted.” ’^l

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Footnotes

dOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
eHebrew “it”
fHebrew “slain one”
gHebrew “he”
hLiterally “declaration of”
iOr “will be”
jHebrew “which”
kHebrew “my”
lOr “did”