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two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon
to go; both of them shall go from the same
land. Make a sign; put it at the head of the
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road to the city. Appoint a road for the sword 21:27 Until He comes. The 3-fold mention of
to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Ju- “overthrown”expresses the severest degree of
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dah, into fortified Jerusalem. For the king of unsettled and chaotic conditions.Israel was to
Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at experience severe instability and even the
the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he kingly privilege will not be Israel’s again until
shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he the Messiah comes, “to whom it rightly
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looks at the liver. In his right hand is the belongs,” or “whose right it is” (Gen. 49:10).
divination for Jerusalem: to set up battering God will give the kingship to Him (Jer.23:5–8),
rams, to call for a slaughter, to lift the voice with the greater “David” (Ezek. 37:24). His “right” is
shouting, to set battering rams against the that perfect combination of priestly and royal
offices (Heb. 5–7).
gates, to heap up a siege mound, and to build a
wall. And it will be to them like a false divina-
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tion in the eyes of those who have sworn oaths I will blow against you with the fire
with them; but he will bring their iniquity to of My wrath,
remembrance, that they may be taken.
24 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Be- And deliver you into the hands of brutal
men who are skillful to destroy.
cause you have made your iniquity to be 32 You shall be fuel for the fire;
remembered, in that your transgressions are Your blood shall be in the midst
uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins of the land.
appear—because you have come to remem- You shall not be remembered,
brance, you shall be taken in hand.
25 ‘Now to you, O profane, wicked prince of For I the LORD have spoken.’ ”
Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity Moreover the word of the LORD came
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shall end, thus says the Lord GOD: 22 to me, saying, “Now, son of man, will
you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes,
“Remove the turban, and take off show her all her abominations! Then say,
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the crown;
Nothing shall remain the same. ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The city sheds
Exalt the humble, and humble the blood in her own midst, that her time may
come; and she makes idols within herself to
exalted. 4
Overthrown, overthrown, blood which you have shed, and have defiled
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I will make it overthrown! yourself with the idols which you have made.
It shall be no longer, You have caused your days to draw near, and
Until He comes whose right it is, have come to the end of your years; therefore I
And I will give it to Him.”’
have made you a reproach to the nations, and
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28 “And you, son of man, prophesy and say, a mockery to all countries. Those near and
‘Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the those far from you will mock you as infamous
Ammonites and concerning their reproach,’ and full of tumult.
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and say: “Look, the princes of Israel: each one has
used his power to shed blood in you. In you
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‘A sword, a sword is drawn, they have made light of father and mother; in
Polished for slaughter, your midst they have oppressed the stranger;
For consuming, for flashing— in you they have mistreated the fatherless and
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29 While they see false visions for you, the widow. You have despised My holy things
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While they divine a lie to you, and profaned My Sabbaths. In you are men
To bring you on the necks of the who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are
wicked, the slain those who eat on the mountains; in your midst
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Whose day has come, they commit lewdness. In you men uncover
Whose iniquity shall end. their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate
women who are set apart during their impurity.
‘Return it to its sheath. One commits abomination with his neighbor’s
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I will judge you wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law;
In the place where you were created, and another in you violates his sister, his
In the land of your nativity. father’s daughter. In you they take bribes to
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I will pour out My indignation on you; shed blood; you take usury and increase; you
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