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4 Because I cut off from you the just and the wicked, so my sword comes from its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5 so that all flesh knows that I Yah Veh draw my sword from his sheath: to return no more:
6 and you, son of humanity, sigh with the breaking of your loins; and sigh with bitterness in front of their eyes.
7 And so be it, when they say to you, Why sigh you? that you say, Because of the report; for it comes: and every heart melts and all hands slacken and every spirit dims and all knees as water: behold, it comes, and so be it - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh.
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THE WORD OF YAH VEH CONCERNING THE SWORD
And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 9 Son of humanity, prophesy; and say, Thus says Yah Veh: Say, A sword - a sword sharpened and polished 10 - sharpened to slaughter a slaughter - polished as lightning: Rejoice we? It spurns the scion of my son, as every tree. 11 And he gives to polish - to manipulate by the palm: this sword, sharpened and polished, to give into the hand of the slaughterer. 12 Cry and howl, son of humanity: so be it on my people - on all the hierarchs of Yisra El: precipitation as to the sword: so be it on my people: so slap on your flank: 13 because it is to proof: and what if it spurns even the scion? So be it not - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. 14 And you, son of humanity, prophesy; and smite your palms together: and double the sword thrice - the sword of the pierced - the sword of the great who are pierced, in their chambers. 15 I give to brandish the sword against all their portals; to melt their heart and abound their stumblingblocks: Ach! it is made lightning, - wrapped for the slaughter. 16 Unite on the right; set on the left: - wherever your face congregates! 17 And I also - I smite my palms together, and I rest my fury: I Yah Veh have worded.
THE WORD OF YAH VEH CONCERNING THE SWORD
And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 9 Son of humanity, prophesy; and say, Thus says Yah Veh: Say, A sword - a sword sharpened and polished 10 - sharpened to slaughter a slaughter - polished as lightning: Rejoice we? It spurns the scion of my son, as every tree. 11 And he gives to polish - to manipulate by the palm: this sword, sharpened and polished, to give into the hand of the slaughterer. 12 Cry and howl, son of humanity: so be it on my people - on all the hierarchs of Yisra El: precipitation as to the sword: so be it on my people: so slap on your flank: 13 because it is to proof: and what if it spurns even the scion? So be it not - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. 14 And you, son of humanity, prophesy; and smite your palms together: and double the sword thrice - the sword of the pierced - the sword of the great who are pierced, in their chambers. 15 I give to brandish the sword against all their portals; to melt their heart and abound their stumblingblocks: Ach! it is made lightning, - wrapped for the slaughter. 16 Unite on the right; set on the left: - wherever your face congregates! 17 And I also - I smite my palms together, and I rest my fury: I Yah Veh have worded.