8. You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you. This is what the Lord God says!
9. I will lead you out of the city, hand you over to foreigners, and execute judgments against you.
10. You will fall by the sword! At Israel’s borders I will judge you, and you will know that I am the Lord.
11. The city won’t be your cooking pot, and you won’t be the meat in it. At Israel’s borders, I will judge you.
12. You will know that I am the Lord, whose regulations you didn’t observe and whose case laws you didn’t follow. Instead, you followed the case laws of the nations around you.
13. While I was prophesying, Benaiah’s son Pelatiah dropped dead. I fell on my face, and I wailed and said, "Oh, Lord God! Are you finishing off even the Israelites who are left?"
14. The Lord’s word came to me:
15. Human one, when the people living in Jerusalem said, "They’ve gone far from the Lord, and we’ve been given the land as an inheritance," they were talking about your family, your nearest relatives, the whole house of Israel, all of it.