Ezekiel:21

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* And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Son of man , set your face toward Jerusalem , and drop your word toward the holy places , and prophesy against the land of Israel , * And say to the land of Israel , Thus says the LORD ; 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 . * Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked , therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north : * That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath : it shall not return any more . * Sigh therefore , you son of man , with the breaking of your loins ; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes . * And it shall be , when they say unto you , Wherefore sigh you ? that you shall answer , For the tidings ; because it comes : 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 comes , and shall be brought to pass , says the Lord GOD . * Again the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Son of man , prophesy , and say , Thus says the LORD ; Say , A sword , a sword is sharpened , and also furbished : * It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter ; it is furbished that it may glitter : should we then make delight ? it despises the rod of my son , as every tree . * 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 . * Cry and wail , 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 : strike therefore upon your thigh . * Because it is a trial , and what if the sword contemn even the rod ? it shall be no more , says the Lord GOD . * You therefore , son of man , prophesy , and strike yours 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 . * 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 . * Go you one way or other , either on the right hand , or on the left , anywhere your face is set . * I will also strike mine hands together , and I will cause my fury to rest : I the LORD have said it . * The word of the LORD came unto me again , saying , * Also , you son of man , appoint you two ways , that the sword of the king of Babylon may come : both two shall come forth out of one land : and choose you a place , choose it at the head of the way to the city . * Appoint a way , that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites , and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Therefore thus says the Lord GOD ; Because all of 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 all of you are come to remembrance , all of you shall be taken with the hand . * And you , profane wicked prince of Israel , whose day has come , when iniquity shall have an end , * Thus says the Lord GOD ; Remove the diadem , and take off the crown : this shall not be the same : exalt him that is low , and bring low him that is high . * I will overturn , overturn , overturn , it : and it shall be no more , until he comes whose right it is ; and I will give it him . * 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 : * While they see vanity unto you , while they divine a lie unto you , to bring you upon the necks of them that are slain , of the wicked , whose day has come , when their iniquity shall have an end . * Shall 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 . * And I will pour out mine 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 . * You shall be for fuel to the fire ; your blood shall be in the midst of the land ; you shall be no more remembered : for I the LORD have spoken it .

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