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Ezekiel

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Chapter 21

¹The word of the LORD came to me: ²“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries; prophesy against the land of Israel ³and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked. ⁴Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north. ⁵And all flesh shall know that I am the LORD. I have drawn my sword from its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.” ⁶“As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes. ⁷And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will turn to water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,’ declares the Lord GOD.” ⁸The word of the LORD came to me: ⁹“Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD: Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished; ¹⁰it is sharpened for slaughter; it is polished to flash like lightning! Or can we make mirth? You have despised the rod and every kind of wood. ¹¹So a sword is provided to be polished, that it may be handled; it is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer. ¹²Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel; they are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh. ¹³For it will be a trial. And what if the rod of contempt despises even the sword? It shall be no more, declares the Lord GOD.” ¹⁴“You therefore, son of man, prophesy; strike your hands together. Let the sword fall twice, yes, three times; it is the sword for slaughter, the sword for great slaughter, which surrounds them. ¹⁵That their hearts may melt, and many stumble, I have set the glittering sword at all their gates. Ah, it is made like lightning; it is polished for slaughter. ¹⁶Cut sharply to the right; set your face to the left, wherever your glance is directed. ¹⁷I also will strike my hands together, and I will satisfy my fury; I the LORD have spoken.” ¹⁸The word of the LORD came to me: ¹⁹“As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost, make it at the head of the way to a city. ²⁰Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah in fortified Jerusalem. ²¹For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver. ²²Into his right hand comes the lot for Jerusalem, to set up battering rams, to open the mouth with a battle cry, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set up battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers. ²³But to them it will seem like a false divination; they have sworn solemn oaths. But he will bring their iniquity to remembrance, that they may be captured. ²⁴“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand. ²⁵And you, O unhallowed, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment, ²⁶thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high. ²⁷A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes to whom it belongs, and to him I will give it. ²⁸“And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach: A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughter; it is polished to consume and to flash like lightning— ²⁹while they see false visions for you, while they divine lies for you—to be laid on the necks of the unhallowed wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment. ³⁰Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. ³¹And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, skillful to destroy. ³²You shall be fuel for the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken.”