“ You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
“‘ As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says,‘ So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.