²⁰ When the three ^[a]companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

³ and say to the land of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, ^(A)I am against you; and I will draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off from you the ^(B)righteous and the wicked. ⁴ Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go forth from its sheath against ^(C)all flesh from south to north. ⁵ Thus all flesh will know that I, the Lord, have drawn My sword out of its sheath. It will ^(D)not return to its sheath again.”’