Ezekiel 11:3
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
Cross-reference
Ezekiel 11:7-11 reverses their pot metaphor: you are the meat but will be dragged out—God's judgment contradicts their false hope.
Ezekiel 11:11 directly refutes their claim: the city won't be their caldron, and they'll be judged outside.
Ezekiel 12:22 records the same proverb of delayed visions, reflecting the people's false security that judgment won't come soon.
Ezekiel 12:27 has people dismissing prophecy as distant, directly echoing the complacent 'time is not near' attitude.
Ezekiel 24:3-14 uses the same boiling pot imagery to depict Jerusalem's judgment—reinforcing the coming destruction.
Isaiah 5:19 shows people sarcastically urging God to hurry—another form of unbelief in his timing.
Jeremiah 1:12 explains the almond branch: 'I am watching over my word to perform it'—a direct rebuke to those who doubt.
2 Peter 3:4 records scoffers asking 'Where is the promise of his coming?'—identical mockery of delayed judgment.
Micah 3:3 uses same pot metaphor for leaders devouring people – here the leaders see themselves as the protected meat.
Deuteronomy 8:12 warns against building houses in prosperity and forgetting God – echoing the false security of the leaders here.