21Ezekiel 21

1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,Select Ezekiel 21:1

2Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,Select Ezekiel 21:2

3And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.Select Ezekiel 21:3

4Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:Select Ezekiel 21:4

5That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.Select Ezekiel 21:5

6Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.Select Ezekiel 21:6

7And it shall be, when they say to you, Why sigh you? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the Lord GOD. ¶Select Ezekiel 21:7

8Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,Select Ezekiel 21:8

9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:Select Ezekiel 21:9

10It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it scorns the rod of my son, as every tree.Select Ezekiel 21:10

11And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.Select Ezekiel 21:11

12Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be on my people, it shall be on all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be on my people: smite therefore on your thigh.Select Ezekiel 21:12

13Because it is a trial, and what if the sword scorn even the rod? it shall be no more, says the Lord GOD.Select Ezekiel 21:13

14You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their privy chambers.Select Ezekiel 21:14

15I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.Select Ezekiel 21:15

16Go you one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, wherever your face is set.Select Ezekiel 21:16

17I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it. ¶Select Ezekiel 21:17

18The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,Select Ezekiel 21:18

19Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both two shall come forth out of one land: and choose you a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.Select Ezekiel 21:19

20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defended.Select Ezekiel 21:20

21For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.Select Ezekiel 21:21

22At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.Select Ezekiel 21:22

23And it shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.Select Ezekiel 21:23

24Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand. ¶Select Ezekiel 21:24

25And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,Select Ezekiel 21:25

26Thus says the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.Select Ezekiel 21:26

27I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. ¶Select Ezekiel 21:27

28And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:Select Ezekiel 21:28

29Whiles they see vanity to you, whiles they divine a lie to you, to bring you on the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.Select Ezekiel 21:29

30Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.Select Ezekiel 21:30

31And I will pour out my indignation on you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.Select Ezekiel 21:31

32You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the middle of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.Select Ezekiel 21:32