18. The word of the Lord came to me again, saying:
19. As for you, son of man, appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come out of one land. And make a signpost. Make it at the head of the way to the city.
20. Appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
21. For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: He shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks in the liver.
22. At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem: to appoint battering rams, to open the mouth for the slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle shout, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast up a ramp, and to build a siege tower.
23. It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, to those who have sworn oaths. But he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be seized.
24. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins do appear, because, I say, that you have come to remembrance, you shall be seized with the hand.
25. You, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the punishment of the end,
26. thus says the Lord God: Remove the diadem and take off the crown. This shall not be the same anymore. Exalt what is low, and abase what is high.
27. A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it. And it shall be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I shall give it to Him.
28. You, son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach, and say, The sword, the sword is drawn,furbished for the slaughter,to cause it to consumethat it may be like lightning,
29. while they see vanity for you,while they divine a lie to youto bring you upon the necksof the wicked who are slain,whose day has comein the time of the punishment of the end.
30. Return it to its sheath.I will judge youin the place where you were created,in the land of your nativity.
31. I will pour out My indignation upon you;I will blow against you in the fire of My wrath,and deliver you into the hand of cruel men,skilled in destruction.
32. You shall be fuel to the fire;your blood shall be in the midst of the land.You shall be no more remembered,for I the Lord have spoken.