¹⁸ And the word of Yahweh came^[a] to me, saying,^{[b] 19} “And you, son of man,^[c] mark out for yourself^[d] two roads for the coming of the sword of the king of Babylon; they must both^[e] go out from the same land. And hew out a signpost;^[f] hew it at the head of the road of the city. ²⁰ You must mark a road for the coming of the sword to Rabbah of the Ammonites^[g] and to Judah, in Jerusalem the fortified. ²¹ For the king of Babylon stands at the fork of the road at the head of the two roads to practice divination. He shakes the arrows,^[h] he inquires with the teraphim, he examines^[i] the liver. ²² In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem, to put up battering rams, to open a mouth for slaughter,^[j] to raise the battle cry,^[k] to put up battering rams against gates, to build a siege ramp, to build siege works.^{[l] 23} And it will be to them like practicing divination falsely^[m] in their eyes; they have sworn oaths for themselves.^[n] But^[o] he will bring their guilt to remembrance so as to seize them.

²⁴ “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt by the uncovering of your transgressions, so that your sins in all of your deeds appear—because of your being remembered, you will be captured in the hand.’