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20 so the sword can come to Rabbah of the Ammonites or to Judah and its fortress, Jerusalem. 21 For the king of Babylon is standing at the fork of the two roads to read the omens: he shakes out the arrows, inquires of the teraphim, inspects the liver. 22 Into his right hand has fallen the lot marked “Jerusalem”: to order the slaughter, to raise the battle cry, to set the battering rams against the gates, to throw up a ramp, to build siege works. Ezekiel 21:20-22, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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