They say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.’

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped in the midst of the city are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.