14. “Now, mortal man, prophesy. Clap your hands, and the sword will strike again and again. It is a sword that kills, a sword that terrifies and slaughters.
15. It makes my people lose courage and stumble. I am threatening their city with a sword that flashes like lightning and is ready to kill.
16. Cut to the right and the left, you sharp sword! Cut wherever you turn.
17. I also will clap my hands, and my anger will be over. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
18. The Lord spoke to me.
19. “Mortal man,” he said, “mark out two roads by which the king of Babylonia can come with his sword. Both of them are to start in the same country. Put up a signpost where the roads fork.