WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.980 Chapter 21, And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 00:31.540 --> 00:36.140 Therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the 00:36.140 --> 00:41.640 south to the north, that all flesh may know that I, the Lord, have drawn forth my 00:41.640 --> 00:42.760 sword out of his sheath. 00:43.360 --> 00:44.940 It shall not return any more. 00:45.820 --> 00:49.340 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins, 00:49.720 --> 00:52.320 and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. 00:53.220 --> 00:58.460 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou, that thou shalt 00:58.460 --> 00:58.900 answer. 00:58.900 --> 01:05.360 For the tidings, because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands 01:05.360 --> 01:10.880 shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as 01:10.880 --> 01:11.260 water. 01:11.940 --> 01:16.180 Behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God. 01:17.240 --> 01:22.900 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy, and say, 01:23.280 --> 01:28.180 Thus saith the Lord, say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished. 01:28.180 --> 01:31.120 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter. 01:31.600 --> 01:33.400 It is furbished that it may glitter. 01:34.840 --> 01:35.900 Should we then make mirth? 01:36.780 --> 01:39.540 It contendeth the rod of my son as every tree. 01:40.380 --> 01:43.500 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled. 01:44.140 --> 01:49.140 This sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the 01:49.140 --> 01:49.540 slayer. 01:50.220 --> 01:51.880 Cry and howl, son of man. 01:52.580 --> 01:56.200 For it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of 01:56.200 --> 02:00.180 Israel, terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people. 02:00.820 --> 02:04.180 Smite therefore upon thy thigh, because it is a trial. 02:04.680 --> 02:07.200 And what if the sword contemn even the rod? 02:07.740 --> 02:10.220 It shall be no more, saith the Lord God. 02:10.940 --> 02:15.440 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, 02:15.900 --> 02:18.300 and let the sword be doubled the third time. 02:18.720 --> 02:23.200 The sword of the slain, it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which 02:23.200 --> 02:24.980 entereth into their privy chambers. 02:25.840 --> 02:30.120 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may 02:30.120 --> 02:32.120 faint, and their ruins be multiplied. 02:32.740 --> 02:36.100 Ah, it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. 02:37.080 --> 02:42.580 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand or on the left, whithersoever 02:42.580 --> 02:43.640 thy face is set. 02:44.040 --> 02:48.640 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest. 02:49.180 --> 02:50.900 I, the Lord, have said it. 02:51.700 --> 02:57.900 The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, Also, thou son of man, 02:58.960 --> 03:02.960 appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. 03:03.420 --> 03:08.000 Both twain shall come forth out of one land, and choose thou a place, 03:08.560 --> 03:11.140 choose it at the head of the way to the city. 03:11.800 --> 03:17.520 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in 03:17.520 --> 03:18.900 Jerusalem, the defenced. 03:18.900 --> 03:22.040 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way. 03:22.800 --> 03:27.660 At the head of the two ways, to use divination, he made his arrows bright, 03:28.080 --> 03:31.020 he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. 03:31.760 --> 03:35.880 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, 03:36.160 --> 03:40.120 to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, 03:40.580 --> 03:45.200 to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a 03:45.200 --> 03:45.440 fort. 03:45.440 --> 03:50.740 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that 03:50.740 --> 03:51.550 have sworn oaths. 03:52.420 --> 03:56.220 But he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. 03:56.800 --> 04:00.860 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, because ye have made your iniquity to be 04:00.860 --> 04:05.420 remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your 04:05.420 --> 04:07.670 doings, your sins do appear. 04:08.580 --> 04:13.660 Because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the 04:13.660 --> 04:13.980 hand. 04:14.580 --> 04:20.780 And thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall 04:20.780 --> 04:21.560 have an end. 04:22.760 --> 04:27.780 Thus saith the Lord God, Remove the diadem, and take off the crown. 04:28.720 --> 04:30.180 This shall not be the same. 04:30.980 --> 04:34.300 Exalt him that is low, and debase him that is high. 04:34.840 --> 04:41.540 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more, until he come 04:41.540 --> 04:44.500 whose right it is, and I will give it him. 04:45.380 --> 04:50.460 And thou son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God concerning the 04:50.460 --> 04:56.140 Ammonites, and concerning their reproach, even say thou, The sword, the sword is 04:56.140 --> 05:00.560 drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering. 05:01.720 --> 05:06.680 Whilst they see vanity unto thee, whilst they divine a lie unto thee, 05:07.120 --> 05:12.540 to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain of the wicked, whose days come, 05:13.520 --> 05:17.740 when their iniquity shall have an end, shall I cause it to return into his 05:17.740 --> 05:18.040 sheath? 05:18.880 --> 05:23.340 I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity, 05:23.920 --> 05:26.800 and I will pour out mine indignation upon thee. 05:27.220 --> 05:32.480 I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of 05:32.480 --> 05:35.080 brutish men, and skillful to destroy. 05:35.940 --> 05:38.200 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire. 05:38.200 --> 05:41.180 Thy blood shall be in the midst of the land. 05:41.780 --> 05:46.260 Thou shalt be no more remembered, for I the Lord have spoken it.