And the
word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
02 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and
drop thy word toward the holy places, and
prophesy against the land of Israel,
03 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw
forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut
off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
04 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the
righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my
sword go forth out of his sheath against all
flesh from the south to the north:
05 That all flesh may know that I the Lord have
drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall
not return any more.
06 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the
breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh
before their eyes.
07 And it shall be, when they say unto thee,
Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer,
For the tidings; because it cometh: and every
heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble,
and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall
be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be
brought to pass, saith the Lord God.
08 Again the word of the Lord came unto me,
saying,
09 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the
Lord; 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 contemneth the rod of my son, as
every tree.
11 And he hath 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 shall be upon
my people, it shall be upon all the princes of
Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be
upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword
contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith
the Lord God.
14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and
smite thine 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 entereth 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 thee one way or other, either on the right
hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is
set.
17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I
will cause my fury to rest: I the Lord have said
it.
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18 The word of the Lord came unto me again,
saying,
19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways,
that the sword of the king of Babylon may come:
both twain shall come forth out of one land: and
choose thou 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 shall be unto 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 saith the Lord God; Because ye
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 ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be
taken with the hand.
25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel,
whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an
end,
26 Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem,
and take off the crown: this shall not be the
same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that
is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and
it shall be no more, until he come whose right it
is; and I will give it him.
28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus
saith the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and
concerning their reproach; even say thou, The
sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it
is furbished, to consume because of the
glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they
divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the
necks of them that are slain, of the wicked,
whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have
an end.
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I
will judge thee in the place where thou wast
created, in the land of thy nativity.
31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon
thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my
wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish
men, and skilful to destroy.
32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood
shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be
no more remembered: for I the Lord have spoken
it.
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