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Ezekiel 21
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
2`Son of man, set thy face unto Jerusalem, and prophesy unto the holy places, and prophesy unto the ground of Israel;
2Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;
3and thou hast said unto the ground of Israel: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I <FI>am<Fi> against thee, And have brought out My sword from its scabbard, And have cut off from thee righteous and wicked.
3And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil.
4Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north.
4Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut off from you, for this cause my sword will go out from its cover against all flesh from the south to the north:
5And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more.
5And all flesh will see that I the Lord have taken my sword out of its cover: and it will never go back.
6And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes,
6Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.
7and it hath come to pass, when they say unto thee, For what art thou sighing? that thou hast said: Because of the report, for it is coming, And melted hath every heart, And feeble hath been all hands, And weak is every spirit, And all knees go--waters, Lo, it is coming, yea, it hath been, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'
7And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.
9`Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said Jehovah, say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.
9Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished:
10So as to slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened. So as to have brightness it is polished, Desire hath rejoiced the sceptre of my son, It is despising every tree.
10It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...
11And he giveth it for polishing, For laying hold of by the hand. It is sharpened--the sword--and polished, To give it into the hand of a slayer.
11And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.
12Cry and howl, son of man, For it hath been among My people, It <FI>is<Fi> among all the princes of Israel, Cast unto the sword have been My people. Therefore strike on thy thigh,
12Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of man: for it has come on my people, it has come on all the rulers of Israel: fear of the sword has come on my people: for this cause give signs of grief.
13Because <FI>it is<Fi> a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising? It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
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14And thou, son of man, prophesy, And smite hand on hand, And bent is the sword a third time, The sword of the wounded! It <FI>is<Fi> the sword of the wounded--the great one, That is entering the inner chamber to them.
14So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them.
15To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapped up for slaughter.
15In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.
16Take possession of the right, place thyself at the left, Whither thy face is appointed.
16Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.
17And I also, I smite My hand on my hand, And have caused My fury to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken.'
17And I will put my hands together with a loud sound, and I will let my wrath have rest: I the Lord have said it.
18And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
18And the word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
19`And thou, son of man, appoint for thee two ways, for the coming in of the sword of the king of Babylon; from one land they come forth, both of them, and a station prepare thou, at the top of the way of the city prepare <FI>it<Fi> .
19And you, son of man, have two ways marked out, so that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; let the two of them come out of one land: and let there be a pillar at the top of the road:
20A way appoint for the coming of the sword, Unto Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, And to Judah, in Jerusalem--the fenced.
20Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to come to Rabbah in the land of the children of Ammon, and to Judah and to Jerusalem in the middle of her.
21For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver.
21For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two roads, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.
22At his right hath been the divination--Jerusalem, To place battering-rams, To open the mouth with slaughter, To lift up a voice with shouting, To place battering-rams against the gates, To pour out a mount, to build a fortification.
22At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.
23And it hath been to them as a false divination in their eyes, Who have sworn oaths to them, And he is causing iniquity to be remembered to be caught.
23And this answer given by secret arts will seem false to those who have given their oaths and have let them be broken: but he will keep the memory of evil-doing so that they may be taken.
24Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your causing your iniquity to be remembered, In your transgressions being revealed, For your sins being seen, in all your doings, Because of your being remembered, By the hand ye are caught.
24For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your evil-doing come to mind by the uncovering of your wrongdoing, causing your sins to be seen in all your evil-doings; because you have come to mind, you will be taken in them.
25And thou, wounded, wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end!
25And you, O evil one, wounded to death, O ruler of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the last punishment;
26Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn aside the mitre, and bear away the crown, This--not this--the low make high, And the high make low.
26This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy head-dress, take off the crown: this will not be again: let that which is low be lifted up, and that which is high be made low.
27An overturn, overturn, overturn, I make it, Also this hath not been till the coming of Him, Whose <FI>is<Fi> the judgment, and I have given it.
27I will let it be overturned, overturned, overturned: this will not be again till he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to him.
28And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the sons of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and thou hast said: A sword, a sword, open for slaughter, Polished to the utmost for brightness!
28And you, son of man, say as a prophet, This is what the Lord has said about the children of Ammon and about their shame: Say, A sword, even a sword let loose, polished for death, to make it shining so that it may be like a flame:
29In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end.
29Your vision is to no purpose, your use of secret arts gives a false answer, to put it on the necks of evil-doers who are wounded to death, whose day has come, in the time of the last punishment.
30Turn <FI>it<Fi> back unto its scabbard, In the place where thou wast produced, In the land of thy birth I do judge thee.
30Go back into your cover. In the place where you were made, in the land from which you were taken, I will be your judge.
31And I have poured on thee Mine indignation, With fire of My wrath I blow against thee, And have given thee into the hand of brutish men--artificers of destruction.
31And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.