19 “As for you, son of man, mark two ways for ^wthe sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make ^xa signpost; make it ^xat the head of the way to a city. 20 Mark a way ^yfor the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified. 21 For the king of Babylon stands ^zat the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults ^athe teraphim;¹ he looks at the liver. 22 Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, ^bto set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, ^cto cast up mounds, to build siege towers. 23 But to them it will seem like a false divination. ^dThey have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, ^ethat they may be taken.

25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. ^rThen they shall know that I am the Lord, ^swhen I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.