Ezekiel 21:1-5

New International Version

Babylon as God’s Sword of Judgment

21 ^[a]The word of the Lord came to me:^{(A) 2} “Son of man, set your face against^(B) Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary.^(C) Prophesy against^(D) the land of Israel ³ and say to her: ‘This is what the Lord says: I am against you.^(E) I will draw my sword^(F) from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.^{(G) 4} Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword^(H) will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.^{(I) 5} Then all people will know that I the Lord have drawn my sword^(J) from its sheath; it will not return^(K) again.’^(L)