For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?

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.

Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.

And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life.