who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.
021:015 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,
that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied:
ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
021:016 Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array,
go to the left, wherever your face is set.
021:017 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath
to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
021:018 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
021:019 Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king
of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land:
and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way
to the city.
021:020 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of
the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
021:021 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way,
at the head of the two ways, to use divination:
he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim,
he looked in the liver.
021:022 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem,
to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter,
to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams
against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
021:023 It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight,
who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory,
that they may be taken.
021:024 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made
your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions
are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;
because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.
021:025 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel,
whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
021:026 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown;
this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low,
and abase that which is high.
021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more,
until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
021:028 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach;
and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it
is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
021:029 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you,
to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,
whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
021:030 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you
were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
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