15. I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,That the heart may melt and many may stumble.Ah! It is made bright;It is grasped for slaughter:
16. “Swords at the ready!Thrust right!Set your blade!Thrust left—Wherever your edge is ordered!
17. “I also will beat My fists together,And I will cause My fury to rest;I, the Lord, have spoken.”
18. The word of the Lord came to me again, saying:
19. “And son of man, appoint for yourself two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to go; both of them shall go from the same land. Make a sign; put it at the head of the road to the city.
20. Appoint a road for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.