The pot will not protect them

5And the Spirit of Yahweh fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, ‘Thus says Yahweh: So you have said, O house of Israel, and I know the things that come up in your spirit.’”

6You have multiplied your slain in this city and filled its streets with the slain.

7Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have placed in its midst—they are the meat, and it is the pot; but you I will bring out from its midst.

8You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord GOD.

9And I will bring you out from its midst, and I will give you into the hand of foreigners, and I will execute judgments on you.

10You will fall by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

11It will not be for you as a pot, and you will not be within it as meat; at the border of Israel I will judge you.

12Then you will know that I am Yahweh, in whose statutes you have not walked, and whose judgments you have not carried out, but you have acted according to the judgments of the nations that are around you.