² And he said to me, ^(A)“Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;

^3 (A)who say, ^(B)‘The time is not near^[a] to build houses. ^(C)This city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, ^(B)they are the meat, and ^(C)this city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it.