11 Then the spirit lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gate of Yahweh’s temple, facing east, and behold, in the doorway of the gate there were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Azzur’s son Yaazanyah and Benayah’s son Felatyah who were leaders of the people.

2 Yahweh told me, “Humanity’s child, these are the men who plan to do evil things and who make wicked plans in this city. 3 They’re saying, ‘This isn’t yet the time to build houses. This city is like a cooking pot, and we’re the meat.’ 4 So, prophesy against them, humanity’s child, start prophesying.”

5 Then Yahweh’s spirit came on me and told me to say: This is what Yahweh says, “That is what you’re all saying, people of Israel, because I know what goes through your mind. 6 You’ve killed many people in this city, and filled its streets with them.

7 Therefore the master Yahweh says: The people you’ve killed, whose bodies you have laid in the middle of Yerushalem, are the meat, and this city is the pot. But you’re all going to be brought out from the centre of this city. 8 You’ve feared the sword, so I am bringing the sword upon you. That’s my master Yahweh’s declaration. 9 I’ll bring you out from the city, and put you into the hands of foreigners, because I’ll bring judgment against you all. 10 You’ll all fall by the sword. I will judge you within Yisrael’s border so that you’ll all know that I am Yahweh. 11 This city won’t be your cooking pot, nor will you be the meat within her. I’ll judge you all within Yisrael’s borders. 12 Then you’ll all know that I’m Yahweh, the one whose instructions you haven’t obeyed and whose regulations you haven’t followed. Instead, you all have imitated the wicked ways of the nations that surround you.”

13 Then as I was prophesying, Benayah’s son Felatyah died. So I fell to my knees with my face bowed low to the ground and cried out with a loud voice, “Oh no, my master Yahweh, will you completely eliminate the Israeli people?”