“You shall fall
By the sword.
I will judge you
At the border of Israel.
You shall know
That I am Yahweh.
This city shall not
Be your pot.
You shall not
Be the meat inside it.
I will judge you
At the border of Israel.
Then you shall know
That I am Yahweh.
You have not followed
My statutes.
You have not kept
My ordinances.
But you have acted
According to the ordinances
Of the nations
That are around you.”
Yahweh was going to judge them at the border of Israel. They would die by the sword if they were not captured. They all would know that he was Yahweh, since that was repeated twice in this short section. They would no longer be the meat in the pot in Jerusalem. The judgment at the border was because they had not followed and kept Yahweh’s statutes and ordinances. Instead, they had followed the ordinances of the countries around them. This seems strange but true.
