²⁰ Appoint a road for the sword to go to ^(A)Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.

⁴ Because I will cut off both righteous and wicked from you, therefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh ^(A)from south to north,

⁴⁶ “Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and ^(A)your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters.

¹⁷ “Or if ^(A)I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land,’ and I ^(B)cut off man and beast from it,

^9 (A)Is not the whole land before you? Please ^(B)separate from me. ^(C)If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”