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chapter 21
1
And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let
thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of
Israel:
3 And say to the land of Israel: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold I come against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its
sheath, and will cut off in thee the just, and the wicked.
4 And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just, and
the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all
flesh, from the south even to the north.
5 That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my
sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.
6 And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy
loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.
7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou?
thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall
melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and
water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith
the Lord God.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord
God: Say: The sword, the sword is sharpened, and furbished.
10 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished
that it may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down
every tree.
11 And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be
handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, that it may be in the
hand of the slayer.
12 Cry, and howl, 0 son of man, for this sword is upon
my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are
delivered up to the sword with my people, strike therefore upon thy thigh,
13 Because it is tried: and that when it shall
overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.
14 Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike
thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the
slain be tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter, that maketh them
stand amazed,
15 And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins.
In all their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is
furbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter.
16 Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the
left, which way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face.
17 And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy
my indignation: I the Lord have spoken.
18 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
19 And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the
sword of the king of Babylon to come: both shall come forth out of one land: and
with his hand he shall draw lots, he shall consult at the head of the way of
the city.
20 Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to
Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jerusalem the strong city.
21 For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the
head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he inquired of the
idols, and consulted entrails.
22 On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem,
to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in
howling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build forts.
23 And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the
oracle in vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he will call to
remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have
remembered your iniquity, and have discovered your prevarications, and your
sins have appeared in all your devices: because, I say, you have remembered,
you shall be taken with the hand.
25 But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day
is come that hath been appointed in the time of iniquity:
26 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off
the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him
that was high?
27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity:
but this was not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth, and I will give
it him.
28 And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith
the Lord God concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach,
and thou shalt say: sword, O sword, come out of the scabbard to kill, be furbished
to destroy, and to glitter,
29 Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they
divine lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are wounded, whose
appointed day is come in the time of iniquity.
30 Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the
place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
31 And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the
fire of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men
that are brutish and contrive thy destruction.
32 Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be
in the midst of the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord have spoken
it.
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