Ezekiel 21:12-21

121Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people, it is against all the 2officials of Israel. They are turned over to the sword with My people, therefore 3slap your thigh. 13For there is a testing; and what if even the 4rod which despises will cease to be?” declares the Lord God.

14“You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands; and let the sword be 5doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them, 15so that their 6hearts will waver, and many 7fall at all their 8gates. I have granted the slaughter of the sword. Oh! It is made for striking like lightning, it is sharpened in readiness for slaughter. 16Prove yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your 9edge is ordered. 17I will also clap My hands, and I will 10satisfy My wrath; I, the Lord, have spoken.”

18And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 19“Now as for you, son of man, 1112make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And 13make a signpost; 14make it at the head of the way to the city. 20You shall 15mark a way for the sword to come to 16Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into 17fortified Jerusalem. 21For the king of Babylon stands at the 18parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use 19divination; he 20shakes the arrows, he consults the 2122household idols, he looks at the liver.