Ezekiel:21:9-27
rsv@Ezekiel:21:9 @ "Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished,
rsv@Ezekiel:21:10 @ sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Or do we make mirth? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:11 @ So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be handled; it is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:12 @ Cry and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel; they are delivered over to the sword with my people. Smite therefore upon your thigh.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:13 @ For it will not be a testing--what could it do if you despise the rod?" says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:14 @ "Prophesy therefore, son of man; clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yea thrice, the sword for those to be slain; it is the sword for the great slaughter, which encompasses them,
rsv@Ezekiel:21:15 @ that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword; ah! it is made like lightning, it is polished for slaughter.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:16 @ Cut sharply to right and left where your edge is directed.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:17 @ I also will clap my hands, and I will satisfy my fury; I the LORD have spoken."
rsv@Ezekiel:21:18 @ The word of the LORD came to me again:
rsv@Ezekiel:21:19 @ "Son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them shall come forth from the same land. And make a signpost, make it at the head of the way to a city;
rsv@Ezekiel:21:20 @ mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:21 @ For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:22 @ Into his right hand comes the lot for Jerusalem, to open the mouth with a cry, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:23 @ But to them it will seem like a false divination; they have sworn solemn oaths; but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be captured.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:24 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in them.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:25 @ And you, O unhallowed wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,
rsv@Ezekiel:21:26 @ thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; things shall not remain as they are; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:27 @ A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it; there shall not be even a trace of it until he comes whose right it is; and to him I will give it.
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