Then I said, ‘Not so, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.’

They say, “Haven’t our houses been recently rebuilt? This city is a pot, and we are the meat in it.”

‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: the bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.

This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.

Put into it the pieces of meat, all the choice pieces – the leg and the shoulder. Fill it with the best of these bones;

‘“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘“Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now encrusted, whose deposit will not go away! Take the meat out piece by piece in whatever order it comes.

So heap on the wood and kindle the fire. Cook the meat well, mixing in the spices; and let the bones be charred.

Therefore say to them, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?