³they say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the meat.’^* ⁴Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, O mortal.”^*

⁵Then the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, Thus says the Lord: This is what you think, O house of Israel; I know the things that come into your mind.^* ⁶You have killed many in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.^* ⁷Therefore thus says the Lord God: The slain whom you have placed within it are the meat, and this city is the pot, but you shall be taken out of it.^* ⁸You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, says the Lord God. ⁹I will take you out of it and give you over to the hands of foreigners and execute judgments upon you.^* ¹⁰You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord.^* ¹¹This city shall not be your pot, and you shall not be the meat inside it; I will judge you at the border of Israel. ¹²Then you shall know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not kept, but you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”^*

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Cross references

*Jer 1:13; Ezek 12:22, 27; 24:3, 6; 2 Pet 3:4
*Ezek 3:4, 17
*Jer 11:20; Ezek 2:2; 3:24; 38:10
*Ezek 7:23; 22:3, 4
*v 9; Ezek 24:3, 6, 10, 11; Mic 3:3
*Ps 106:41; Ezek 5:8
*2 Kings 14:25; 25:19–21; Jer 52:10; Ezek 6:7
*v 10; Ezek 8:10, 14, 16; 18:8, 9