Nebuchadnezzar Divines at the Fork in the Road

Prompt

Ezekiel 21: the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of two roads, to use divination: he shakes his arrows, consults images, and looks in the liver. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in royal Babylonian robes and crown, stands large and central at a fork in a desert road beside a stone signpost cairn, holding a quiver of arrows and shaking them to cast lots, his face intent; beside him a Chaldean diviner holds up a clay liver model and small household idols stand on a cloth. Behind him his chariots and spear-bearing army wait in the haze, one road winding toward the hills of Judah, the other toward Ammon. Bright hard desert sunlight. Style: a blend of photo-realism and cinema, like a still from a big-budget film. Bright, rich, saturated, luminous colour, clear daylight or glowing golden light even in dramatic scenes, never murky or muddy, crisp detail, real human faces full of emotion, shallow depth of field, subtle film grain. Simple, uncluttered composition: ONE clear scene from this chapter, with the chapter's main character or characters large, close and central in the upper and middle frame, and a simple background. No montage, no collage, no inset vignettes, no crowd of small figures competing for attention. Historically accurate ancient Near Eastern clothing, architecture and landscape. Keep the bottom quarter of the frame simple and uncluttered (ground, water or sky) so a large chapter number can be set over it. Absolutely no text, no letters, no words, no numbers, no logos, no watermark, no border, no frame.