Ezekiel 21:18-27

English Standard Version

¹⁸ The word of the Lord came to me again: ¹⁹ “As for you, son of man, mark two ways for ^(A)the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make ^(B)a signpost; make it ^(C)at the head of the way to a city. ²⁰ Mark a way ^(D)for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified. ²¹ For the king of Babylon stands ^(E)at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults ^(F)the teraphim;^[a] he looks at the liver. ²² Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, ^(G)to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, ^(H)to cast up mounds, to build siege towers. ²³ But to them it will seem like a false divination. ^(I)They have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, ^(J)that they may be taken.

²⁴ “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, ^(K)you shall be taken in hand. ²⁵ And you, O profane^{[b] (L)}wicked one, prince of Israel, ^(M)whose day has come, ^(N)the time of your final punishment, ²⁶ thus says the Lord God: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. ^(O)Exalt that which is low, and bring low that which is exalted. ²⁷ A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. ^(P)This also shall not be, ^(Q)until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.