Ezekiel 21:18-24
A Sword for Slaughter
18And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, 19“Now as for you, son of man, 1,amake two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And 2make a signpost; 3make it at the head of the way to the city. 20“You shall 1mark a way for the sword to come to aRabbah of the sons of Ammon and to Judah into bfortified Jerusalem. 21“For the king of Babylon stands at the 1parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use adivination; he bshakes the arrows; he asks the 2,chousehold idols; he looks at the liver. 22“Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to aset battering rams, to open the mouth 1for killing, to lift up the voice with a shout of war, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall. 23“And it will be to them like a worthless divination in their eyes; athey have sworn solemn oaths. But he bbrings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.
24“Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Because you have made your iniquity 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 will be seized with the hand.