Ezekiel 21:15

21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.

At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.

Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

Ezekiel 21:22

21:22 Into his right hand ¹  comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal ²  for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, ³  to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

¹ tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.

² tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.

³ tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”