Ezekiel 21

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1 And the word of the Lord came to me:
2 Son of man! Turn your face to Jerusalem and utter a word in the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy the righteous and the wicked from you.
4 And in order to destroy the righteous and the wicked from you, my sword from all my flesh will go to all flesh from south to north.
5 And all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, have drawn my sword from its sheath, and it will not return.
6th But thou, son of man, groan, breaking thy hips, and wail in sorrow before their eyes.
7th And when they say to you, "Why do you groan?", Say: "from the hearing that comes," and every heart melts, and all hands fall, and every spirit withers, and all knees tremble like water. Behold, it shall come, and it shall come to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

8 And the word of the Lord came to me:
9 Son of man! Prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Say: The sword, the sword sharpened and cleaned;
10 Sharpened in order to kill more; Cleaned to sparkle like lightning. Should we rejoice that the rod of my son despises every tree?
eleven I gave it a clean out to take in hand; Already sharpened this sword and cleaned to give it to the murderer's hand.
12 Wail and weep, son of man, for he is against my people, against all the princes of Israel; They shall be given into the sword with my people; Therefore hit yourself on the hips.
13 For he is already experienced. And what if he despises the rod as well? This one will not stand, says the Lord God.
14 But you, son of man, prophesy and strike with your hand against your hand; And the sword shall double and treble, the sword in the slain, the sword to destroy the great, that penetrate into the interior of their dwellings.
15 In order to melt the hearts and make the dead more, I will put a menacing sword at all their gates, alas! Shining like lightning, pointy for slaughter.
16 Gather up and go to the right or go to the left, wherever your face turns.
17th And I will clap and satisfy My wrath; I, the Lord, have spoken.

18 And the word of the Lord came to me:
19 And you, son of man, imagine two roads along which the sword of the king of Babylon must go, - they must go out of one land; And draw a hand, draw at the beginning of the road to the cities.
20 Imagine the way in which the sword would go to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and to Judah, to the fortified Jerusalem;
21 Because the king of Babylon stopped at the crossroads, at the beginning of two roads, for fortune-telling: he shakes arrows, asks terafim, examines the liver.
22 In his right hand he has a fortune: `to Jerusalem ', where he must put battering rams, open his mouth to slaughter, raise his voice for a military shout, bring battering rams to the gate, pour in a shaft, build siege towers.
23 This divination seemed to their eyes to be false; But since they swore by an oath, he, remembering such a treachery, put it to him.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: for you yourself bring your own iniquity to memory, making your crimes manifest, exposing your sins to appear in all your deeds, and bring it to mind yourself, you will be taken by hand.
25 And you, unworthy, criminal leader of Israel, whose day has come now, when his wickedness is laid to an end!
26th Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Take off your diadem and fold a crown; This will no longer be; The humiliated will be exalted and the high will be degraded.
27th I will put it down, overthrow, defile it, and it will not be, until He comes to whom He belongs, and I will give Him.

28 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the sons of Ammon, and for their reproach; And say: the sword, the sword is exposed for slaughter, it is cleaned for destruction, so that it may shine like lightning,
29 When they present empty visions to you and falsely tell you, and put you to the decapitated wicked, whom the day has come, when their wickedness is laid to rest.
thirty Should she be sheathed in it? - On the place where you are created, on the ground of your origin I will judge you:
31 And I will pour out My indignation upon thee, I will die upon thee with the fire of My wrath, and will deliver thee into the hands of fierce men, experienced in murder.
32 Thou shalt be food for fire, thy blood shall remain upon the earth; They will not remember you; For I, the Lord, have spoken it.

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