26 “This is what the Lord God says:

Remove the turban, and take off the crown.
Things will not remain as they are;[a]
exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.(A)
27 A ruin, a ruin,
I will make it a ruin!
Yet this will not happen
until he comes;(B)
I have given the judgment to him.[b]

28 “Now you, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt.’ You are to proclaim,

‘A sword! A sword
is drawn for slaughter,
polished to consume,(C) to flash like lightning.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:26 Lit This not this
  2. 21:27 Or comes to whom it rightfully belongs, and I will give it to him

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