Ezekiel 21
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Babylon, the Sword of the Lord
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and speak against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, # Eze 4:7; 20:46; 25:2 3and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, # Jer 21:13 and will draw My sword from its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. # Job 9:22 4Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north, # Eze 20:47 5that all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth My sword from its sheath. # Eze 21:30 It shall not return anymore. # Na 1:9
6As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, # Isa 22:4 groan before their eyes. 7It shall be when they say to you, “Why do you groan?” that you shall answer, “Because of the news that is coming. And every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. # Isa 13:7; Eze 7:17 Behold, it comes and shall be brought to pass,” says the Lord God.
8Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 9Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord! Say:
A sword, a sword is sharpened
and also polished! # Eze 21:3
10It is sharpened to make a slaughter; # Ps 110:5–6
it is polished so that it may glisten like lightning.
Should we then make cheer, the rod of My son despising every tree? # Eze 20:47
11He has given it to be polished,
that it may be handled;
the sword is sharpened,
and it is polished to give it into the hand of the slayer. # Eze 21:19
12Cry out and howl, son of man; # Eze 21:6; Joel 1:13
for it shall be against My people,
it shall be against all the officials of Israel.
Terrors by reason of the sword
shall be upon My people;
therefore strike your thigh.
13Because it is a trial, and what if even the rod which despises shall be no more? says the Lord God.
14You therefore, son of man, prophesy
and clap your hands together. # Nu 24:10
And let the sword be doubled
the third time, # 2Ki 24:1
the sword of the slain.
It is the sword of the great one slain,
which surrounds them.
15That their hearts may faint,
and many fall at all their gates, # Jer 17:27; Eze 21:7
I have given the glittering sword.
Ah! It is made for striking like lightning;
it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16Show yourself sharp, go to the right hand.
Set yourself. Go to the left hand,
wherever your edge is set.
17I will also clap My hands together,
and I will cause My fury to rest; # Eze 5:13
I the Lord have spoken.
18The word of the Lord came to me again, saying: 19As for you, son of man, appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come out of one land. And make a signpost. Make it at the head of the way to the city. # Eze 4:1–3 20Appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites # Jer 49:2; Am 1:14 and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. 21For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: # Ge 31:19; Pr 16:33 He shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks in the liver. 22At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem: to appoint battering rams, to open the mouth for the slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle shout, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast up a ramp, and to build a siege tower. # Eze 4:2; 26:9 23It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, to those who have sworn oaths. But he will call to remembrance the iniquity, # Nu 5:15 that they may be seized.
24Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins do appear, because, I say, that you have come to remembrance, you shall be seized with the hand.
25You, profane wicked prince of Israel, # 2Ch 36:13 whose day has come in the time of the punishment of the end, # Eze 35:5 26thus says the Lord God: Remove the diadem and take off the crown. This shall not be the same anymore. Exalt what is low, and abase what is high. # Ps 75:7; Eze 17:24 27A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it. And it shall be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I shall give it to Him. # Ge 49:10; Ps 2:6
A Sword Against the Ammonites
28You, son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites # Eze 25:1–7 and concerning their reproach, and say,
The sword, the sword is drawn,
polished for the slaughter,
to cause it to consume
that it may be like lightning, # Eze 21:9–10, 20
29while they see vanity for you,
while they divine a lie to you # Eze 22:28
to bring you upon the necks
of the wicked who are slain,
whose day has come
in the time of the punishment of the end. # Eze 21:25
30Return it to its sheath. # Jer 47:6–7
I will judge you # Eze 16:38
in the place where you were created,
in the land of your birth.
31I will pour out My indignation upon you;
I will blow against you in the fire of My wrath, # Ps 18:15; Isa 30:33
and deliver you into the hand of cruel men,
skilled in destruction.
32You shall be fuel to the fire; # Mal 4:1
your blood shall be in the midst of the land.
You shall be no more remembered, # Eze 25:10
for I the Lord have spoken.
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