Ezekiel 21:1
Verse 1 of 32. The 21st of 48 chapters in Ezekiel, in The Major Prophets.
1And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
4Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.