Ezekiel 21

¹ And the wordthe word of the LORDthe LORD came unto me, saying,

² Son of manSon of man, set thy faceface toward JerusalemJerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of IsraelIsrael,

³ And saysay to the land of IsraelIsrael, Thus saithsaith the LORDthe LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my swordsword out of his sheath, and will cut offcut off from thee the righteousrighteous and the wickedwicked.

⁴ SeeingSeeing then that I will cut offcut off from thee the righteousrighteous and the wickedwicked, therefore shall my swordsword go forthgo forth out of his sheath against all fleshflesh from the southsouth to the northnorth:

⁵ That all fleshflesh may knowknow that I the LORDthe LORD have drawn forth my swordsword out of his sheath: it shall not returnreturn any more.

⁶ Sigh therefore, thou son of manson of man, with the breaking of thy loinsloins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyeseyes.

⁷ And it shall be, when they saysay unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it comethcometh: and every heartheart shall meltmelt, and all handshands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all kneesknees shall be weak as waterwater: behold, it comethcometh, and shall be brought to pass, saithsaith the LordLord GOD.

⁸ Again the wordthe word of the LORDthe LORD came unto me, saying,

⁹ Son of manSon of man, prophesy, and saysay, Thus saithsaith the LORDthe LORD; saysay, A swordsword, a swordsword is sharpened, and also furbished:

¹⁰ It is sharpened to make a sore slaughterslaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my sonson, as every treetree.

¹¹ And he hath givegive it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this swordsword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to givegive it into the handhand of the slayer.

¹² CryCry and howlhowl, son of manson of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of IsraelIsrael: terrors by reason of the swordsword shall be upon my people: smitesmite therefore upon thy thighthigh.

¹³ Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saithsaith the LordLord GOD.

¹⁴ Thou therefore, son of manson of man, prophesy, and smitesmite thine handshands together, and let the swordsword be doubled the thirdthird time, the swordsword of the slainslain: it is the swordsword of the great mengreat men that are slainslain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

¹⁵ I have set the point of the swordsword against all their gatesgates, that their heartheart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughterslaughter.

¹⁶ GoGo thee one wayway or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy faceface is set.

¹⁷ I will also smitesmite mine handshands together, and I will cause my furyfury to rest: I the LORDthe LORD have saidsaid it.

¹⁸ The wordThe word of the LORDthe LORD came unto me again, saying,

¹⁹ Also, thou son of manson of man, appoint thee twotwo waysways, that the swordsword of the king of BabylonBabylon may comecome: bothboth twain shall comecome forth out of oneone landland: and choose thou a place, choose it at the headhead of the wayway to the citycity.

²⁰ Appoint a wayway, that the swordsword may comecome to Rabbath of the AmmonitesRabbath of the Ammonites, and to JudahJudah in JerusalemJerusalem the defenced.

²¹ For the king of BabylonBabylon stoodstood at the parting of the wayway, at the headhead of the twotwo waysways, to use divination: he made his arrowsarrows bright, he consulted with imagesimages, he looked in the liverliver.

²² At his right handright hand was the divination for JerusalemJerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouthopen the mouth in the slaughterslaughter, to lift up the voicevoice with shoutingshouting, to appoint battering rams against the gatesgates, to cast a mount, and to buildbuild a fortfort.

²³ And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sightsight, to them that have swornsworn oaths: but he will call to remembranceremembrance the iniquityiniquity, that they may be taken.

²⁴ Therefore thus saithsaith the LordLord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquityiniquity to be rememberedremembered, in that your transgressionstransgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sinssins do appear; because, I saysay, that ye are come to remembranceremembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

²⁵ And thou, profane wickedwicked prince of IsraelIsrael, whose dayday is comecome, when iniquityiniquity shall have an end,

²⁶ Thus saithsaith the LordLord GOD; RemoveRemove the diadem, and take off the crowncrown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is highhigh.

²⁷ I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he comecome whose right it is; and I will givegive it him.

²⁸ And thou, son of manson of man, prophesy and saysay, Thus saithsaith the LordLord GOD concerning the AmmonitesAmmonites, and concerning their reproachreproach; even saysay thou, The swordsword, the swordsword is drawn: for the slaughterslaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glitteringglittering:

²⁹ Whiles they seesee vanityvanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lielie unto thee, to bringbring thee upon the necksnecks of them that are slainslain, of the wickedwicked, whose dayday is comecome, when their iniquityiniquity shall have an end.

³⁰ Shall I cause it to returnreturn into his sheath? I will judgejudge thee in the placeplace where thou wast createdcreated, in the landland of thy nativity.

³¹ And I will pour outpour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the firefire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the handhand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

³² Thou shalt be for fuel to the firefire; thy bloodblood shall be in the midstmidst of the landland; thou shalt be no more rememberedremembered: for I the LORDthe LORD have spokenspoken it.