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"And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the Ammonites and their insults: " 'A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning!

"And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says about the Ammonites and their insults: "‘A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning!

Despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about you, it will be laid on the necks of the wicked who are to be slain, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax.

Despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about you, it will be laid on the necks of the wicked who are to be slain, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax.

Return the sword to its scabbard. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge you.

"‘Let the sword return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge you.

I will pour out my wrath upon you and breathe out my fiery anger against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, men skilled in destruction.

I will pour out my wrath on you and breathe out my fiery anger against you; I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, men skilled in destruction.

You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more; for I the LORD have spoken.' "

You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more; for I the Lord have spoken.'"