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a cooking pot

Yahweh compares Jerusalem to a cooking pot. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

rust

the red material that forms on metal. Rust eats away at metal and eventually destroys it

Take

Yahweh does not give this command to a specific person, instead he is commanding some imaginary person who is part of the metaphor.

but do not cast lots for it

Casting lots was a way of choosing which pieces of meat to take out, but because Yahweh wants to take out all of the pieces of meat, there is no need to cast lots.