| 1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set
thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the sanctuaries,
and prophesy against the land of Israel; 3 and say to the land of Israel,
Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword
out of its 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 its sheath against all flesh from
the south to the north: 5 and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have
drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with
bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes. 7 And it shall be, when they
say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the
tidings, for 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 it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah. 8 And the
word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say,
Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also
furbished; 10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is
furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of
my son, it contemneth every tree. 11 And it is given to be furbished, that
it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give
it into the hand of the slayer. 12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is
upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over
to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh. 13 For there
is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith
the Lord Jehovah. 14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy
hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the
deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded,
which entereth into their chambers. 15 I have set the threatening sword
against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be
multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
16 Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the
left, whithersoever thy face is set. 17 I will also smite my hands
together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
18 The word of Jehovah 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;
they twain shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it
out at the head of the way to the city. 20 Thou shalt appoint a way for
the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in
Jerusalem the fortified. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting
of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the
arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
22 In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set
battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with
shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to
build forts. 23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their
sight, who have sworn oaths unto them; but he bringeth iniquity to
remembrance, that they may be taken. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your
transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;
because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
25 And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day
is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, 26 thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Remove the mitre, and take off the crown; this shall be no
more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high. 27 I
will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also 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 Jehovah concerning the
children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say thou, A sword, a
sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour,
that it may be as lightning; 29 while they see for thee false visions,
while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked
that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the
end. 30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou wast
created, in the land of thy birth, will I judge thee. 31 And I will pour
out mine indignation upon thee; I will blow upon thee with the fire of my
wrath; and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, 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, Jehovah, have
spoken it.
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