Ezekiel 21:21-23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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.
Nebuchadnezzar at the Crossroads. 23 The word of the Lord came to me:
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Ezekiel 21:21-23
New International Version
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(A) with arrows, he will consult his idols,(B) he will examine the liver.(C) 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,(D) to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp(E) and to erect siege works.(F) 23 It will seem like a false omen to those who have sworn allegiance to him, but he will remind(G) them of their guilt(H) and take them captive.
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