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Ezekiel 21

21 "I Then this word from the Eternal came to me: 2 “Son of man, turn to Jerusalem, declaim against her sanctuaries, prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 and tell the land of Israel this message from the Eternal: ‘I am against you, I will unsheathe my sword and slay both good and bad within you; 4 and because I will slay both good and bad within you, my sword shall be unsheathed against all the world, from south to north; 5 the world shall know that I the Eternal have unsheathed my sword--not to be sheathed again.’ 6 Sigh then, O son of man, sigh before them a heart-breaking, bitter sigh. 7 And when they ask you why you are sighing, answer, ‘For bad news! Evil is coming; every heart shall tremble, every hand shall be limp, every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Evil is coming—the Lord the Eternal has declared it.’ ”

8 This word from the Eternal came to me: 9 “Son of man, utter this prophetic word from the Eternal. Say:

A sword, a sword,

whetted and polished,

whetted to slay,

polished to flash like lightning

handed to slayers

to wield,

whetted and polished

for slayers to handle!

Shriek, son of man, and howl;

’tis drawn against my people,

against all Israel’s leaders--

they and my people

surrendered to the sword!

Smite your breast despairingly,

for I spurn them in my wrath,

says the Lord the Eternal.

14 Prophesy, then, son of man, call the doom down,

swing the sword twice, thrice,

the sword of mortal wounds,

the huge sword of mortal wounds,

that hems them in.

Scare them till their hearts are trembling,

and the dead lie heaped at every gate.

They are abandoned to the slaughtering sword,

flashing like lightning,

whetted for slaughter.

Whirl to the rear,

sword, right, front, left--

wherever your edge must whirl;

and I will clap you on,

I will glut my fury--

I, the Eternal, have said it!”

18 This word from the Eternal came to me; 19 “Son of man, trace two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both from the same land; draw a hand to mark out the path of the sword to each city, 20 to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Jerusalem inside Judah. 21 For the king of Babylon is standing at the cross-roads, where the two paths fork, to practise divination; he is shaking the two arrows, consulting the oracle, and inspecting a beast’s liver. 22 To his right hand comes the lot against Jerusalem, for cries of havoc, for battle-shouts, for battering-rams against the gates, for raising ramparts, for erecting forts. 23 Jerusalem thinks it is a lot cast in vain; but it recalls to me their guilt, and for their guilt they shall be captured. 24 Here, then, is the Lord the Eternal’s word: ‘Since you recall to me your guilt, by your open transgressions and all the deeds that bring your sins to light, since you remind me of yourselves, And you, you knave, 25 O prince of Israel to be slain, for whom the hour of sin’s full punishment brings doom-- 26 ‘Off with his diadem, away with his crown!’ says the Lord the Eternal; ‘turn things upside down, up with the low, down with the high! 27 I lay all in ruins, ruins, ruins; everything shall be overturned, till the rightful man arrives--and I will give him everything.’

28 Son of man, deliver this prophetic word also from the Lord the Eternal about the Ammonites and their deriding. Say, ‘A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to flash lightning! 29 In false visions, by a lying oracle, you were told that you would wield it on the necks of the wicked, the doomed, whose end comes in the hour of sin’s full punishment. 30 Back with it into the scabbard! I will punish you yourself in the land of your origin, the land of your birth; 31 I will vent my anger upon you, blow the flames of my wrath on you, and hand you over to savage agents of destruction. 32 You shall be fuel to the fire, your blood shall fill the land, and you shall be forgotten--for I the Eternal have decreed it.’ ”

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