“1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set
thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward the holy places,
and prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 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. 4 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: 5 That all
flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his
sheath: it shall not return any more. 6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man,
with the breaking of [thy] loins; and with bitterness sigh before their
eyes. 7 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.”
“8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9 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].”
“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].”
(Ezekiel 21:1-32 AV)
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