and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments amon
Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—swor
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedn
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will reduce your chariots to cinders, and the sword will devo
Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and b
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside yo
“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land.
“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will
And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I w
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against yo
If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, t
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean
The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch o
‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’
When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to des
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
“You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”
Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepher
when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay t
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your citi
And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyo