For this is what the Lord of Armies says:

Cut down the trees;(A)
raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem.
This city must be punished.
There is nothing but oppression within her.(B)

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This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Cut down the trees(A)
    and build siege ramps(B) against Jerusalem.
This city must be punished;
    it is filled with oppression.(C)

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22 The answer marked[a] Jerusalem appears in his right hand, indicating that he should set up battering rams,(A) give the order to[b] slaughter, raise a battle cry, set battering rams against the gates, build a ramp, and construct a siege wall.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:22 Lit The divination for
  2. 21:22 Lit rams, open the mouth in

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,(A) to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp(B) and to erect siege works.(C)

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