Then the Spirit of the Lord came on me, and he told me to say: “This is what the Lord says: That is what you are saying, you leaders in Israel, but I know what is going through your mind.(A) You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.(B)

“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot,(C) but I will drive you out of it.(D) You fear the sword,(E) and the sword is what I will bring against you, declares the Sovereign Lord.(F) I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands(G) of foreigners and inflict punishment on you.(H) 10 You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.(I) Then you will know that I am the Lord. 11 This city will not be a pot(J) for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. 12 And you will know that I am the Lord,(K) for you have not followed my decrees(L) or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.(M)

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