“ You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
“ Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
‘ And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’— surely thus says the Lord—‘ so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.