The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 21

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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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

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