Ezekiel:21
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And the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
set thy face toward Jerusalem ,
and drop thy word toward the holy places ,
and prophesy against the land of Israel ,
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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 .
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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 :
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That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath :
it shall not return any more .
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Sigh therefore ,
thou son of man ,
with the breaking of thy loins ;
and with bitterness sigh before their eyes .
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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 .
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
prophesy ,
and say ,
Thus saith the LORD ;
Say ,
A sword ,
a sword is sharpened ,
and also furbished :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Because it is a trial ,
and what if the sword contemn even the rod ?
it shall be no more ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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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 .
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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 .
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Go thee one way or other ,
either on the right hand ,
or on the left ,
whithersoever thy face is set .
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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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The word of the LORD came unto me again ,
saying ,
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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 .
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Appoint a way ,
that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites ,
and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And thou ,
profane wicked prince of Israel ,
whose day is come ,
when iniquity shall have an end ,
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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 .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .