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1 And the word of the LORD [Yahweh] came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD [Yahweh]; Behold, I [am] against you, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore will my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD [Yahweh] have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it will not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of [your] loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it will be, when they say to you, Why sigh you? that you will answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak [as] water: behold, it comes, and will be brought to pass, says the Lord GOD.
8 Again the word of the LORD [Yahweh] came to me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD [Yahweh]; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemns the rod of my son, [as] every tree.
11 And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it will be upon my people, it [will be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword will be upon my people: smite therefore upon [your] thigh.
13 Because [it is] a trial, and what if [the sword] contemn even the rod? it will be no [more], says the Lord GOD.
14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [your] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men that are] slain, which enters into their privy chambers.
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that [their] heart may faint, and [their] ruins be multiplied: ah! [it is] made bright, [it is] wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go you one way or other, [either] on the right hand, [or] on the left, wheresoever your face [is] set.
17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD [Yahweh] have said [it].
18 The word of the LORD [Yahweh] came to me again, saying,
19 Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain will come forth out of one land: and choose you a place, choose [it] at the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made [his] arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint [battering] rams against the gates, to cast a mount, [and] to build a fort.
23 And it will be to them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, [I say], that you are come to remembrance, you will be taken with the hand.
25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [will have] an end,
26 Thus says the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this [will] not [be] the same: exalt [him that is] low, and abase [him that is] high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it will be no [more], until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword, the sword [is] drawn: for the slaughter [it is] furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 While they see vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [will have] an end.
30 Will I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.
31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, [and] skilful to destroy.
32 You will be for fuel to the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will be no [more] remembered: for I the LORD [Yahweh] have spoken [it].