1And the word of Yahuah (LORD) came unto me, saying,
2Son of Adam, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Yashar'el (Israel),
3And say to the land of Yashar'el (Israel), Thus says Yahuah (LORD); Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
4Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5That all flesh may know that I Yahuah (LORD) have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6Sigh therefore, you son of Adam, with the breaking of your loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7And it shall be, when they say unto you, Wherefore sighest you? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes: 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 comes, and shall be brought to pass, says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD).
8Again the word of Yahuah (LORD) came unto me, saying,
9Son of Adam, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahuah (LORD); Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10It 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.
11And he has 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.
12Cry and howl, son of Adam: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Yashar'el (Israel): terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon your thigh.
13Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD).
14You therefore, son of Adam, prophesy, and smite your 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 enters into their privy chambers.
15I 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.
16Go you one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever your face is set.
17I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I Yahuah (LORD) have said it.
18The word of Yahuah (LORD) came unto me again, saying,
19Also, you son of Adam, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose you a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Yahudah (Judah) in Jerusalem the defenced.
21For 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.
22At 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.
23And 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.
24Therefore thus says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD); Because you 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 you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
25And you, profane wicked prince of Yashar'el (Israel), whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26Thus says Adonai Yahuah (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.
27I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28And you, son of Adam, prophesy and say, Thus says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD) concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29Whiles they see vanity unto you, whiles they divine a lie unto you, to bring you upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.
31And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
32You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I Yahuah (LORD) have spoken it.