What does Ezechiel Chapter 21 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Ezechiel 21 turns against Jerusalem and sanctuaries. The Lord draws his sword to cut off the just and wicked, from south to north, and all flesh knows it will not return. Ezechiel must sigh with breaking loins and bitterness; the announced report melts hearts, weakens hands, faints spirits and makes knees flow with water. A sharpened, furbished sword glitters and rejects the son's sceptre; the edition explains the sword as Nabuchodonosor and Israel as God's son. It is handed to a slayer; crying, howling, princes' flight, a struck thigh, a trial and overthrow of the sceptre accompany it. Clapping hands doubles and triples the sword, with dread and ruin at gates and movement right and left. Secret chambers and a clinical spinal fracture are not stated.

The prophet marks two roads from one land and a sign at the head of the way: Rabbath of Ammon and fortified Jerusalem. Babylon's king stands at the fork, shuffling arrows, consulting idols and looking at entrails. The right-hand divination points toward Jerusalem with rams, howling, mounts and forts. The passage describes this divination without authorizing it as reliable counsel. What appears vain to the people accompanies the difficult wording about imitating sabbath leisure, remembered iniquity and exposed devices, ending in capture by the hand. A wicked prince loses diadem and crown, with low raised and high brought down. The edition identifies Sedecias's broken oath and contrasts the loss of his crown with raised private condition and the earlier deposed Jechonias.

The repeated statement of iniquity ends with the coming of the one to whom judgment belongs. The edition offers an alternate overturning of the crown and says it is not utterly removed until Christ, who reigns spiritually over Jacob; this must not become complete vacancy until Christ. An oracle against Ammon's reproach follows, with a furbished sword, vain visions and lies, and necks of the wicked at their appointed time. Returning the sword to its sheath precedes judgment in its native land. The edition explains Babylon's sword returning home for judgment by Medes and Persians, rather than making all the closing judgment occur in Ammon. Indignation, brutish destroyers, fire, blood and being forgotten conclude the oracle.