15 “I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, to melt the heart and that the overthrown be many. Ah! It is made like lightning, keen for slaughter.
16 “Sharpen yourself on the right, set yourself on the left, wherever your edge is appointed!
17 “And I too, I shall strike My hands together and cause My wrath to rest. I, יהוה, have spoken.”
18 And the word of יהוה came to me again, saying,
19 “And you, son of man, appoint for yourself two ways for the sword of the sovereign of Baḇel to go, both of them coming from one land. And place a signpost, put it at the head of the way to the city.
20 “Appoint a way for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Yehuḏah, into the walled Yerushalayim.
21 “For the sovereign of Baḇel shall stand at the parting of the way, at the fork of the two ways, to practise divination. He shall shake the arrows, he shall ask the household idols, he shall look at the liver.