17 “I also will abeat My fists together,
And bI will cause My fury to rest;
I, the Lord, have spoken.”
And bI will cause My fury to rest;
I, the Lord, have spoken.”
18 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying:
19 “And son of man, appoint for yourself two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to go; both of them shall go from the same land. Make a sign; put it at the head of the road to the city.
20 Appoint a road for the sword to go to aRabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.
21 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the1 images, he looks at the liver.
22 In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem: to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to alift the voice with shouting, bto set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, and to build a wall.
23 And it will be to them like a false divination in the eyes of those who ahave sworn oaths with them; but he will bring their iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
24 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have made your iniquity 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 hand.
25 ‘Now to you, O aprofane, wicked prince of Israel, bwhose day has come, whose iniquity shall end,
26 thus says the Lord God:
“Remove the turban, and take off the crown;
Nothing shall remain the same.
aExalt the humble, and humble the exalted.
“Remove the turban, and take off the crown;
Nothing shall remain the same.
aExalt the humble, and humble the exalted.
27 1Overthrown, overthrown,
I will make it overthrown!
aIt shall be no longer,
Until He comes whose right it is,
And I will give it to bHim.” ’
I will make it overthrown!
aIt shall be no longer,
Until He comes whose right it is,
And I will give it to bHim.” ’
A Sword Against the Ammonites
28 “And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God aconcerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach,’ and say:
‘A sword, a sword is drawn,
Polished for slaughter,
For consuming, for flashing—
‘A sword, a sword is drawn,
Polished for slaughter,
For consuming, for flashing—
29 While they asee false visions for you,
While they divine a lie to you,
To bring you on the necks of the wicked, the slain
bWhose day has come,
Whose iniquity shall end.
While they divine a lie to you,
To bring you on the necks of the wicked, the slain
bWhose day has come,
Whose iniquity shall end.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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