15. So that hearts may melt with fearand the fallen be many,I have stationed the sword for slaughterat all their gates.Look! It is forged to strike like lightning,it is grasped for slaughter.
16. Slash to the right, you sword,then to the left,wherever your blade is turned.
17. I too will strike my hands together,and my wrath will subside.I the Lord have spoken.’
18. The word of the Lord came to me:
19. ‘Son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same country. Make a signpost where the road branches off to the city.
20. Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.