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Ezekiel

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1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 2 Son of man, set thy face to­ward Jerusalem, and drop thy word to­ward the holy places, and proph­esy against the land of Is­rael, 3 And say to the land of Is­rael, Thus saith the LORD; Be­hold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righ­teous and the wicked. 4 See­ing then that I will cut off from thee the righ­teous and the wicked, there­fore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not re­turn any more. 6 Sigh there­fore, thou son of man, with the break­ing of thy loins; and with bit­ter­ness sigh be­fore their eyes. 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Where­fore sigh­est thou? that thou shalt an­swer, For the tid­ings; be­cause it cometh: 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 cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD. 8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 9 Son of man, proph­esy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharp­ened, and also fur­bished: 10 It is sharp­ened to make a sore slaugh­ter; it is fur­bished that it may glit­ter: should we then make mirth? it con­tem­neth the rod of my son, as ev­ery tree. 11 And he hath 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. 12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my peo­ple, it shall be upon all the princes of Is­rael: ter­rors by rea­son of the sword shall be upon my peo­ple: smite there­fore upon thy thigh. 13 Be­cause it is a tri­al, and what if the sword con­temn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD. 14 Thou there­fore, son of man, proph­esy, and smite thine 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 en­tereth into their privy cham­bers. 15 I 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. 16 Go thee one way or oth­er, either on the right hand, or on the left, whith­er­so­ev­er thy face is set. 17 I will also smite mine hands to­geth­er, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it. 18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, say­ing, 19 Al­so, thou son of man, ap­point thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Baby­lon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. 20 Ap­point a way, that the sword may come to Rab­bath of the Am­monites, and to Ju­dah in Jerusalem the de­fenced. 21 For 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. 22 At 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. 23 And it shall be unto 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. 24 There­fore thus saith the Lord GOD; Be­cause ye 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 ye are come to re­mem­brance, ye shall be tak­en with the hand. 25 And thou, pro­fane wicked prince of Is­rael, whose day is come, when in­iq­ui­ty shall have an end, 26 Thus saith 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. 27 I will over­turn, over­turn, over­turn, it: and it shall be no more, un­til he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. 28 And thou, son of man, proph­esy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD con­cern­ing the Am­monites, and con­cern­ing their re­proach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaugh­ter it is fur­bished, to con­sume be­cause of the glit­ter­ing: 29 Whiles they see van­i­ty unto thee, whiles they di­vine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their in­iq­ui­ty shall have an end. 30 Shall I cause it to re­turn into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast cre­at­ed, in the land of thy na­tiv­i­ty. 31 And I will pour out mine in­dig­na­tion upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and de­liv­er thee into the hand of brutish men, and skil­ful to de­stroy. 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more re­mem­bered: for I the LORD have spo­ken it.