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20 And prepare a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah and to Jerusalem, the mighty city. 21 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shoots an arrow, he inquires of his idol, he sees his triumph. 22 At his right hand was the divination against Jerusalem, saying to build mounds against her, to open his mouth threatening with all his strength, to lift up his voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build siege forts. 23 And it shall be as a false divination to them; but he will call to remembrance their iniquity, that they may be captured. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered clearly and your transgressions are uncovered so that in all your devices your sins are evident, therefore, with the hand shall you be caught. 25 And as for you, filthy wicked prince of Israel, your day and the time of your iniquity and your end has come. 26 Thus says the LORD God: Remove the diadem and take off the crown; the low is exalted, and the proud is brought down. 27 Even this place I will cause to be a ruin; until he comes to whom it belongs by right, and I will deliver it to him. 28 And you, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach: even say, The sword, the sword is drawn for the slaughter; it is sharpened and it glitters; 29 Because of your false vision and because of your false divination, to bring you upon the necks of the sinful and wicked men, whose day has come and the time of their iniquity and their end. 30 Return the sword to its sheath! for in the land wherein you were born, there will I judge you. 31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow against you with the fire of my wrath, and will deliver you into the hand of men brutish and skilful to destroy. 32 You shall be fuel for the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered; for I the LORD have spoken it. Ezekiel 21:20-32, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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