21:1 The
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
me:
21:2 "Son
of
man,
set
your
face
toward
Jerusalem
and
preach
against
the
sanctuaries.
Prophesy
against
the
land
of
Israel
21:3 and
say
to
the
land
of
Israel,
Thus
says
the
LORD:
Behold,
I
am
against
you
and
will
draw
my
sword
from
its
sheath
and
will
cut
off
from
you
both
righteous
and
wicked.
21:4 Because
I
will
cut
off
from
you
both
righteous
and
wicked,
therefore
my
sword
shall
be
drawn
from
its
sheath
against
all
flesh
from
south
to
north.
21:5 And
all
flesh
shall
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
I
have
drawn
my
sword
from
its
sheath;
it
shall
not
be
sheathed
again.
21:6 "As
for
you,
son
of
man,
groan;
with
breaking
heart
and
bitter
grief,
groan
before
their
eyes.
21:7 And
when
they
say
to
you,
'Why
do
you
groan'
you
shall
say,
'Because
of
the
news
that
it
is
coming.
Every
heart
will
melt,
and
all
hands
will
be
feeble;
every
spirit
will
faint,
and
all
knees
will
be
weak
as
water.
Behold,
it
is
coming,
and
it
will
be
fulfilled,'"
declares
the
Lord
GOD.
21:8 And
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
me:
21:9 "Son
of
man,
prophesy
and
say,
Thus
says
the
Lord,
say:
"A
sword,
a
sword
is
sharpened
and
also
polished,
21:10 sharpened
for
slaughter,
polished
to
flash
like
lightning!
(Or
shall
we
rejoice
You
have
despised
the
rod,
my
son,
with
everything
of
wood.)
21:11 So
the
sword
is
given
to
be
polished,
that
it
may
be
grasped
in
the
hand.
It
is
sharpened
and
polished
to
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
slayer.
21:12 Cry
out
and
wail,
son
of
man,
for
it
is
against
my
people.
It
is
against
all
the
princes
of
Israel.
They
are
delivered
over
to
the
sword
with
my
people.
Strike
therefore
upon
your
thigh.
21:13 For
it
will
not
be
a
testing--what
could
it
do
if
you
despise
the
rod"
declares
the
Lord
GOD.
21:14 "As
for
you,
son
of
man,
prophesy.
Clap
your
hands
and
let
the
sword
come
down
twice,
yes,
three
times,
the
sword
for
those
to
be
slain.
It
is
the
sword
for
the
great
slaughter,
which
surrounds
them,
21:15 that
their
hearts
may
melt,
and
many
stumble.
At
all
their
gates
I
have
given
the
glittering
sword.
Ah,
it
is
made
like
lightning;
it
is
taken
up
for
slaughter.
21:16 Cut
sharply
to
the
right;
set
yourself
to
the
left,
wherever
your
face
is
directed.
21:17 I
also
will
clap
my
hands,
and
I
will
satisfy
my
fury;
I
the
LORD
have
spoken."
21:18 The
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
me
again:
21:19 "As
for
you,
son
of
man,
mark
two
ways
for
the
sword
of
the
king
of
Babylon
to
come.
Both
of
them
shall
come
from
the
same
land.
And
make
a
signpost;
make
it
at
the
head
of
the
way
to
a
city.
21:20 Mark
a
way
for
the
sword
to
come
to
Rabbah
of
the
Ammonites
and
to
Judah,
into
Jerusalem
the
fortified.
21:21 For
the
king
of
Babylon
stands
at
the
parting
of
the
way,
at
the
head
of
the
two
ways,
to
use
divination.
He
shakes
the
arrows;
he
consults
the
teraphim;
he
looks
at
the
liver.
21:22 Into
his
right
hand
comes
the
divination
for
Jerusalem,
to
set
battering
rams,
to
open
the
mouth
with
murder,
to
lift
up
the
voice
with
shouting,
to
set
battering
rams
against
the
gates,
to
cast
up
mounds,
to
build
siege
towers.
21:23 But
to
them
it
will
seem
like
a
false
divination.
They
have
sworn
solemn
oaths,
but
he
brings
their
guilt
to
remembrance,
that
they
may
be
taken.
21:24 "Therefore
thus
says
the
Lord
GOD:
Because
you
have
made
your
guilt
to
be
remembered,
in
that
your
transgressions
are
uncovered,
so
that
in
all
your
deeds
your
sins
appear--because
you
have
come
to
remembrance,
you
shall
be
taken
in
hand.
21:25 And
you,
O
profane
wicked
one,
prince
of
Israel,
whose
day
has
come,
the
time
of
your
final
punishment,
21:26 thus
says
the
Lord
GOD:
Remove
the
turban
and
take
off
the
crown.
Things
shall
not
remain
as
they
are.
Exalt
that
which
is
low,
and
bring
low
that
which
is
exalted.
21:27 A
ruin,
ruin,
ruin
I
will
make
it.
This
also
shall
not
be,
until
he
comes,
the
one
to
whom
judgment
belongs,
and
I
will
give
it
to
him.
21:28 "And
you,
son
of
man,
prophesy,
and
say,
Thus
says
the
Lord
GOD
concerning
the
Ammonites
and
concerning
their
reproach;
say,
A
sword,
a
sword
is
drawn
for
the
slaughter.
It
is
polished
to
consume
and
to
flash
like
lightning--
21:29 while
they
see
for
you
false
visions,
while
they
divine
lies
for
you--to
place
you
on
the
necks
of
the
profane
wicked,
whose
day
has
come,
the
time
of
their
final
punishment.
21:30 Return
it
to
its
sheath.
In
the
place
where
you
were
created,
in
the
land
of
your
origin,
I
will
judge
you.
21:31 And
I
will
pour
out
my
indignation
upon
you;
I
will
blow
upon
you
with
the
fire
of
my
wrath,
and
I
will
deliver
you
into
the
hands
of
brutish
men,
skillful
to
destroy.
21:32 You
shall
be
fuel
for
the
fire.
Your
blood
shall
be
in
the
midst
of
the
land.
You
shall
be
no
more
remembered,
for
I
the
LORD
have
spoken."