28-32 “But, son of man, your job is to prophesy. Tell them, ‘This is the Message from God, the Master, against the Ammonites and against their cruel taunts:

“‘A sword! A sword!
    Bared to kill,
Sharp as a razor,
    flashing like lightning.
Despite false sword propaganda
    circulated in Ammon,
The sword will sever Ammonite necks,
    for whom it’s punishment payday.
Return the sword to the sheath! I’ll judge you in your home country,
    in the land where you grew up.
I’ll empty out my wrath on you,
    breathe hot anger down your neck.
I’ll give you to vicious men
    skilled in torture.
You’ll end up as stove-wood.
    Corpses will litter your land.
Not so much as a memory will be left of you.
    I, God, have said so.’”

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29 Despite false visions concerning you
    and lying divinations(A) about you,
it will be laid on the necks
    of the wicked who are to be slain,
whose day has come,
    whose time of punishment has reached its climax.(B)

30 “‘Let the sword return to its sheath.(C)
    In the place where you were created,
in the land of your ancestry,(D)
    I will judge you.
31 I will pour out my wrath on you
    and breathe(E) out my fiery anger(F) against you;
I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men,
    men skilled in destruction.(G)

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