1Then came the word of Jehovah to me, saying:

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2Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

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Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 4:7, Ezekiel 4:7, Ezekiel 28:21

3and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

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Jeremiah 21:13, Job 9:22, Jeremiah 21:13, Job 9:22, Nahum 3:5

4Seeing then that I cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.

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Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 7:2, Ezekiel 7:2, Ezekiel 6:11

5And all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

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Ezekiel 21:30, Ezekiel 21:30, Nahum 1:9, Nahum 1:9, Jeremiah 23:20

6Thou, therefore, O son of man, sigh! With the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness, sigh before their eyes!

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Isaiah 22:4, Ezekiel 6:11, Isaiah 22:4, Ezekiel 6:11, Nahum 2:10

7And when they shall say to thee, "Wherefore sighest thou?" thou shalt say, "For the rumor, because it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall fail, and all knees shall flow with water. Behold it cometh, it shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord Jehovah."

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Ezekiel 7:17, Ezekiel 7:17, Jeremiah 50:43, Isaiah 13:7, Nahum 2:10

8Also the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:

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9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, The sword, the sword is sharpened and furbished.

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Isaiah 34:5, Isaiah 34:6, Ezekiel 21:28, Ezekiel 21:3, Isaiah 34:5

10It is sharpened, that it may make sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter. Or shall we make mirth? The staff of my son despiseth every rod.

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Psalms 110:5, Psalms 110:6, Psalms 110:5, Psalms 110:6, Ezekiel 20:47

11And he gave it to be furbished that it might be handled. The sword is sharpened and furbished, to be given into the hand of the slayer.

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Ezekiel 21:19, Ezekiel 21:19, Jeremiah 51:20, Jeremiah 51:23, Jeremiah 25:33

12Cry and howl, son of man! for it cometh upon my people, upon all the princes of Israel. They are given up to the sword with my people. Therefore smite upon thy thigh.

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Ezekiel 21:6, Ezekiel 21:6, Joel 1:13, Joel 1:13, Jeremiah 31:19

13The trial is made. And what if even the contemning staff should be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Ezekiel 21:25, Ezekiel 21:10, 2 Corinthians 8:2, Ezekiel 21:25, Ezekiel 21:10

14Thou, therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together! for twice, yea thrice, cometh the sword, a sword of slaughter, a sword of great slaughter, that besetteth them on every side.

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Numbers 24:10, 2 Kings 24:1, Numbers 24:10, 2 Kings 24:1, Leviticus 26:21

15That their hearts may faint, and their overthrown may be multiplied, I have set the terror of the sword against all their gates. Ah, how is it made to glitter, polished for slaughter!

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Jeremiah 17:27, Ezekiel 21:10, Jeremiah 17:27, Ezekiel 21:10, Ezekiel 21:7

16Unite thyself, smite to the right, prepare thyself, smite to the left, whithersoever thine edge is turned!

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Ezekiel 14:17, Ezekiel 21:4, Ezekiel 16:46, Ezekiel 21:20, Genesis 13:9

17I also will smite my hands together, and cause mine anger to cease. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

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Ezekiel 5:13, Ezekiel 5:13, Ezekiel 21:14, Ezekiel 21:14, Ezekiel 22:13

18The word of Jehovah came to me again, saying:

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19Do thou, son of man, appoint thee two ways by which the sword of the king of Babylon may come; from one land shall both of them come; and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

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Ezekiel 4:1, Ezekiel 4:3, Jeremiah 1:10, Ezekiel 4:1, Ezekiel 4:3

20Appoint a way, that the sword may come towards Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, and towards Judah, to Jerusalem, the fenced city.

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Amos 1:14, Jeremiah 49:2, Amos 1:14, Jeremiah 49:2, Deuteronomy 3:11

21For the king of Babylon shall stand at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shall shake together his arrows, he shall consult the teraphim, he shall look at the liver.

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Proverbs 16:33, Judges 17:5, Judges 18:20, Proverbs 16:33, Judges 17:5

22In his right hand shall be the lot: Jerusalem, to set battering-rams, to open the mouth with the war-cry, to lift up the voice in shouting, to set battering-rams against the gates, to cast up a mound, to build a tower.

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Ezekiel 4:2, Ezekiel 4:2, Ezekiel 26:9, Ezekiel 26:9, 1 Samuel 17:20

23And this shall appear a false divination in their sight, because they swore oaths to them. But he shall call to remembrance their iniquity, that they may be taken.

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Numbers 5:15, Numbers 5:15, Ezekiel 29:16, Ezekiel 21:24, Ezekiel 29:16

24Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye make your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear,—because, I say, ye bring yourselves into remembrance, ye shall be taken with that hand.

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Hosea 4:2, Hosea 4:2, Jeremiah 5:27, Jeremiah 5:28, Ezekiel 23:5

25And thou, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day cometh in the time when iniquity bringeth destruction!

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Ezekiel 35:5, Ezekiel 35:5, Jeremiah 52:2, Ezekiel 17:19, 2 Chronicles 36:13

26Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will remove the diadem, and take away the crown! This shall no more be this. I exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

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Ezekiel 17:24, Ezekiel 17:24, Psalms 75:7, Psalms 75:7, Jeremiah 52:31

27I will destroy, destroy, destroy it; and it shall be no more until he come to whom the right belongeth, and to whom I will give it.

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Micah 5:2, Micah 5:2, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 23:5

28And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the sons of Ammon and their scorn; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn; to slay, to consume, is it furbished, so that it glittereth;

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Ezekiel 21:9, Ezekiel 21:10, Ezekiel 21:20, Zephaniah 2:8, Zephaniah 2:10

29while they see deceit for thee, and prophesy falsehood, that it may bring thee to the necks of the wicked that are slain, whose day cometh in the time when iniquity bringeth destruction.

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Ezekiel 21:25, Ezekiel 21:25, Ezekiel 22:28, Ezekiel 22:28, Jeremiah 27:9

30Return the sword into its sheath! In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity, I will judge thee,

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Jeremiah 47:6, Jeremiah 47:7, Ezekiel 16:38, Genesis 15:14, Jeremiah 47:6

31and I will pour upon thee my indignation, I will blow upon thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hands of brutal men, skilful to destroy.

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Ezekiel 7:8, Nahum 1:6, Haggai 1:9, Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 6:22

32Thou shalt be fuel for the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; men shall no more remember thee. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

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Ezekiel 25:10, Ezekiel 25:10, Malachi 4:1, Malachi 4:1, Ezekiel 20:47