³ who say, ‘The time is not ^(A)near to build houses; ^(B)this city is the ^[a]caldron, and we are the meat.’

^6 (A)You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.”

⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(A)“Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; ^(B)but I shall bring you out of the midst of it.