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25 (20) Make a road, so that the sword can come to Rabbah of the people of ‘Amon and to Y’hudah in fortified Yerushalayim. 26 (21) For the king of Bavel is standing at the fork in the road, where the two roads separate, about to use divination — he is shaking the arrows, consulting the household gods, examining the liver. 27 (22) Into his right hand comes the lot for Yerushalayim, to set up battering rams, give the order for slaughter, raise a shout, set battering rams against the gates, build siege ramps and erect watchtowers.

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25 “‘You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come,(A) whose time of punishment has reached its climax,(B) 26 this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Take off the turban, remove the crown.(C) It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low.(D) 27 A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come;(E) to him I will give it.’(F)

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