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21 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver. 22 Into his right hand comes the lot for Jerusalem,[a] to open the mouth with a cry,[b] to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers. 23 But to them it will seem like a false divination; they have sworn solemn oaths; but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be captured.

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  1. Ezekiel 21:22 Heb Jerusalem, to set battering rams
  2. Ezekiel 21:22 Gk: Heb with slaughter

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