New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezekiel 21:19-22

19“As for you, son of man, 1 2make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And 3make a signpost; 4make it at the head of the way to the city.

20You shall 5mark a way for the sword to come to 6Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into 7fortified Jerusalem.

21For the king of Babylon stands at the 8parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use 9divination; he 10shakes the arrows, he consults the 11 12household idols, he looks at the liver.

22Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to 13set battering rams, to open the mouth 14for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 21:19 Or set for yourself ↩
2. Ezekiel 21:19 Jer 1:10; Ezek 4:1-3 ↩
3. Ezekiel 21:19 Lit cut out a hand ↩
4. Ezekiel 21:19 Lit cut it ↩
5. Ezekiel 21:20 Lit set ↩
6. Ezekiel 21:20 Deut 3:11; Jer 49:2; Ezek 25:5; Amos 1:14 ↩
7. Ezekiel 21:20 Ps 48:12, 13; 125:1, 2 ↩
8. Ezekiel 21:21 Lit mother ↩
9. Ezekiel 21:21 Num 22:7; 23:23 ↩
10. Ezekiel 21:21 Prov 16:33 ↩
11. Ezekiel 21:21 Heb teraphim ↩
12. Ezekiel 21:21 Gen 31:19, 30; Judg 17:5; 18:17, 20 ↩
13. Ezekiel 21:22 Ezek 4:2; 26:9 ↩
14. Ezekiel 21:22 Lit in ↩

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