¹⁹ For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.

⁷ For this reason the Lord has said: Your dead whom you have put down in its streets, they are the flesh, and this town is the cooking-pot: but I will make you come out from inside it.

³ And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it:

⁴ And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.

⁵ Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.

⁶ For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

¹² But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.

³⁰ Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

⁴⁰ As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world.

⁴¹ The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,

⁴² And will put them into the fire; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.