ULT EZE Chapter 21

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21 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drip words against the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel. 3 And say to the land of Israel, ‘Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you! And I will bring out my sword from its sheath, and I will cut off from you righteous and wicked. 4 Because I have cut off from you righteous and wicked, therefore my sword will go out from its sheath against all flesh from the south, to the north. 5 And all flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have brought out my sword from its sheath. It will not return again.’

6 And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of loins, and with bitterness you will groan before their eyes. 7 And it will happen that when they say to you, ‘On account of what are you groaning?’ then you will say, ‘Because of a report, for it is coming. And every heart will melt, and all hands will grow slack, and every spirit will grow dim, and all knees will go, with water. Behold, it is coming, and it will come to pass’— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.”

8 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 9 “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: Say,

“A sword, a sword! It has been sharpened, and also polished.

10 For the sake of slaughtering a slaughter it has been sharpened; for the sake of being lightning to it, it has been polished.

Or shall we rejoice? The scepter of my son is rejecting every tree.

11 And he gave it to be polished, to grasp it in the palm.

It, the sword, has been sharpened; and it, it has been polished, to give it into the hand of a killer.

12 Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the leaders of Israel.

Ones cast to the sword they are, along with my people. Therefore, slap your hand on the thigh!

13 For it has been tested. And what if even the rejecting scepter will not be?— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.” ’

14 And you, son of man, prophesy and strike palm to palm, and may the sword be doubled a third time.

It is the sword of the slain; it is the sword of the great slain one, the one surrounding them,

15 for the sake of the melting of the heart and the multiplying of the stumbling blocks. At all their gates I have put the flashing of a sword. Ah! It is made for lightning, it is wrapped for slaughter.

16 Gather yourself! Go to the right! Set yourself! Go to the left! Wherever your face is appointed!

17 And also I, I will strike my palm to my palm, and I will bring my wrath to rest. I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

18 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 19 “And you, son of man, set for yourself two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; from one land the two of them will go out. And carve a hand; at the head of the way to a city carve it. 20 You will set a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah, in fortified Jerusalem. 21 For the king of Babylon stands at the mother of the way, at the head of the two ways, to divine a divination. He shakes the arrows, he inquires of the teraphim, he looks at the liver. 22 In his right hand is the divination, for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with a shout, to set battering rams against the gates, to pour out a siege mound, to build a siege wall. 23 And it will be to them like a divination of emptiness in their eyes— sworn oaths, are to them— but he is making iniquity remembered, so that they may be seized.

24 Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because of your making your iniquity remembered, in the uncovering of your transgressions, so that your sins are seen in all your deeds— because of your being remembered, by the palm you will be seized.’

25 And you, profane wicked one, leader of Israel, whose day has come at the time of the iniquity of the end, 26 thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Remove the turban and lift off the crown! This will not, be this. Make high the low, and make low the high. 27 A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it! Also this will not be, until the coming of the one to whom the judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.’

28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach.’ And you will say, ‘A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, for the sake of lightning, 29 in their seeing emptiness for you, in their divining a lie for you, to put you on the necks of the profane wicked ones, whose day has come at the time of the iniquity of the end. 30 Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origins, I will judge you. 31 And I will pour out on you my indignation. With the fire of my wrath I will blow against you, and I will give you into the hand of brutish men, craftsmen of destruction. 32 You will be for the fire as food. Your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, Yahweh, have spoken.’ ”

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