Ezekiel 21:19–32

19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of athe king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and bchoose thou ca place, bchoose it dat the head of the way to the city. 20 Appoint a way, that ethe sword may come to efRabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at gthe †parting of the way, dat the head of the two ways, hto use divination: he imade 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 lin the slaughter, mto lift up the voice with shouting, kto appoint battering rams against the gates, kto cast a mount, and kto build a fort. 23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, ||nto them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, othat 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, oye shall be taken with the hand.

25 And thou, pprofane qwicked prince of Israel, rwhose day is come, rrwhen iniquity shall have an end, 26 Thus saith the Lord God; Remove sthe diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: texalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. 27 †I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and uit shall be no more, vuntil he come whose right it is; and wI will give it him.

28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God xconcerning the Ammonites, and xconcerning their reproach; even say thou, yThe sword, the sword is yydrawn: for the slaughter it is yfurbished, to consume because of the yglittering: 29 Whiles zthey see vanity unto thee, whiles zthey divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, rwhose day is come, rrwhen their iniquity shall have an end. 30 ||Shall I cause it to return into ahis sheath? bI will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of cthy nativity. 31 And dI will pour out mine indignation upon thee, eI will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of ||fbrutish men, and skilful to destroy. 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; gthou shalt be no more remembered: zzfor I the Lord have spoken it.