15 That their hearts may faint,and many fall at all their gates,I have given the glittering sword.Ah! It is made for striking like lightning;it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Show yourself sharp, go to the right hand.Set yourself. Go to the left hand,wherever your edge is set.
17 I will also clap My hands together,and I will cause My fury to rest;I the Lord have spoken.
18 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying:
19 As for you, son of man, appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come out of one land. And make a signpost. Make it at the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
21 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: He shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks in the liver.