Ezekiel 11:7-9

11:7 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped ¹  in the midst of the city ²  are the meat, and this city ³  is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. ⁴  11:8 You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the sovereign Lord. 11:9 ‘But I will take you out of the city. ⁵  And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

¹ tn Heb “placed.”

² tn Heb “in its midst.”

³ tn Heb “she/it.” See v. 3.

⁴ tc Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).

⁵ tn Heb “its midst.”