²⁰ When the three ^[a]units blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

³ and say to the land of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Behold, ^(A)I am against you; and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you the ^(B)righteous and the wicked. ⁴ Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go out from its sheath against ^[a](C)humanity from south to north. ⁵ So ^[b]humanity will know that I, the Lord, have drawn My sword from its sheath. It will ^(D)not return to its sheath again.”’