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28 The Ammonites’ Punishment. As for you, son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord in regard to the Ammonites and their insults:

A sword, a sword, drawn for slaughter,
    burnished to consume and to flash like lightning.
29 In spite of false visions about you
    as well as lying divinations,
that sword will be laid on the necks
    of the wicked who are to be slain—
    those whose day has come,
    the hour of final punishment.
30 Return it to its sheath.
    I will judge you
in the place where you were created,
    in the land of your origin.

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