John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 11:7

"Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but ye shall be brought forth out of the midst of it." — Ezekiel 11:7 (ASV)

Therefore thus says the Lord God Applying the parabolical expressions they had derided, and explaining them, in a different sense from what they had put upon them:

your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they [are] the flesh ; the prophets they had killed; the persons, who had died innocently for crimes laid to their charge they had not been guilty of; and such who had fallen by one judgment or another since the siege, they were the persons intended by "the flesh", and not such as were alive; and therefore could promise themselves nothing from this proverb they had taken up, and scoffed at:

and this [city is] the cauldron ; that holds the slain, and in which they will lie and continue, and not the living:

but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it : where they promised themselves safety, and a long continuance; yet should not abide, but be carried captive.