21:18 耶和華的話又臨到我說：
21:19 「人子啊，你要定出兩條路，好使巴比倫王的刀來。這兩條路必從一地分出來，又要在通城的路口上畫出一隻手來。
21:20 你要定出一條路，使刀來到亞捫人的拉巴；又要定出一條路，使刀來到猶大的堅固城耶路撒冷。
21:21 因為巴比倫王站在岔路那裡，在兩條路口上要占卜。他搖籤（原文是箭）求問神像，察看犧牲的肝；
21:22 在右手中拿著為耶路撒冷占卜的籤，使他安設撞城錘，張口叫殺，揚聲吶喊，築壘造臺，以撞城錘，攻打城門。
21:23 據那些曾起誓的猶大人看來，這是虛假的占卜；但巴比倫王要使他們想起罪孽，以致將他們捉住。」
21:24 主耶和華如此說：「因你們的過犯顯露，使你們的罪孽被記念，以致你們的罪惡在行為上都彰顯出來；又因你們被記念，就被捉住。
21:25 你這受死傷行惡的以色列王啊，罪孽的盡頭到了，受報的日子已到。
21:26 主耶和華如此說：當除掉冠，摘下冕，景況必不再像先前；要使卑者升為高，使高者降為卑。
21:27 我要將這國傾覆，傾覆，而又傾覆；這國也必不再有，直等到那應得的人來到，我就賜給他。」
The word of the Lord came to me again: “As for you, son of man, mark two ways for
the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same
land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city. Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of
the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified. For the king of Babylon stands at the parting
of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the
arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver. Into his right hand comes the divination for
Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the
voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up
mounds, to build siege towers. But to
them it will seem like a false divination. They have sworn solemn oaths, but he
brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be taken.
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have made your guilt to
be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your
deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken
in hand. And you, O profane wicked one,
prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment, thus says the Lord God: Remove the turban and
take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is
low, and bring low that which is exalted.
A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he
comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
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西元前590年左右，亞捫與猶大定立同盟，要一起抵禦巴比倫。巴比倫王派兵要一一瓦解這個同盟，透過抽籤的方式決定要先攻擊那一個國家，結果選定猶大。
「搖籤」、「求問神像」、「察看犧牲的肝」這三者都是當時尋求神明指示的方式，此處描述巴比倫王三者都執行了。可以想見結果就是指向耶路撒冷，因此巴比倫王就開始攻擊耶路撒冷。對猶大人來說，巴比倫王的占卜就是「虛假的占卜」，根本就是迷信。但是巴比倫王敬虔的聽從指示，攻打耶路撒冷。這樣的結果，讓以色列人想起罪孽。他們有正確的信仰知識，如果他們如同巴比倫王一樣敬虔的信上帝，今天就不會遭遇這樣的命運。我們號稱自己是基督徒，有正確的信仰，是不是比周遭拜假神的還「不虔誠」？
先知在此預言：大衛王朝到西底家就結束（後來只有省長以及利未支派，的王）直到耶穌基督才再承接王權，直到永源！而在此也提醒我們要仰望基督，唯獨祂才是上帝所設立的救主！
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