¹⁷ “Now as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Say to every ^[a]kind of ^(A)bird and to every ^(B)animal of the field: “Assemble and come, gather from every direction to My sacrifice, which I am going to ^(C)sacrifice for you as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel; and you will eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ You will ^(D)eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the leaders of the earth, as though they were ^(E)rams, lambs, goats, and ^(F)bulls, all of them fattened livestock of ^(G)Bashan.