9 I will bring you out of the midst of the city and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgments against you.
10 You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
11 This city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you in the border of Israel.
12 Thus you shall know that I am the Lord. For you have not walked in My statutes, or executed My judgments, but have done after the customs of the nations all around you.
13 Now while I was prophesying, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
14 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
15 Son of man, your brothers, your kindred, your fellow captives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “Go far from the Lord. This land has been given to us as a possession.”