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20 That every heart may tremble;
    for many will be made to stumble.
At all their gates
    I have stationed the sword for slaughter,
Made it flash lightning,
    drawn for slaughter.
21 Slash to the right!
    turn to the left,
    Wherever your edge is directed!(A)
22 Then I, too, shall clap my hands,[a]
    and spend my fury.
I, the Lord, have spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:22 Clap my hands: the Lord declares himself no longer responsible for Judah; cf. 22:13; Nm 24:10; Jb 27:23; Lam 2:15.

20 Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites(A) and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem. 21 For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots(B) with arrows, he will consult his idols,(C) he will examine the liver.(D) 22 Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry,(E) to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp(F) and to erect siege works.(G)

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