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20 Set it to point one way for bringing the sword against Rabbah, the descendants of Ammon, and the other way against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.

21 “Meanwhile, Babylon’s king is standing at the fork of the road,[a] where he can head in either of two directions, and that’s where he is practicing divination. Shaking his arrows, he’s asking questions of his teraphim while he examines livers. 22 On his right hand he is divining against Jerusalem, preparing to set up battering rams, preparing[b] for the slaughter, getting ready to sound the alarm for battle,[c] setting the battering rams in place at the gates, building siege mounds, and erecting a siege wall.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:21 Lit. at the point of departure
  2. Ezekiel 21:22 Lit. rams, to open the mouth
  3. Ezekiel 21:22 Lit. to shout