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Ezekiel 21 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Prophesy of Yahweh’s Sword

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[fn]And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:2 - “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and speak, dripping out words against the sanctuaries and prophesy against the land of Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:3 - and say to the land of Israel, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am against you; and I will bring out My sword from its sheath and cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:4 - “Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go out from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:5 - “Thus all flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have brought out My sword from its sheath. It will not return to its sheath again.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:6 - “Now as for you, son of man, groan with breaking [fn]heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7 - “And it will be that when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the report that is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will fall limp, every spirit will [fn]faint, and all knees will [fn]be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will happen,’ declares Lord Yahweh.”

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Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:9 - “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says [fn]the Lord.’ Say,

‘A sword, a sword sharpened

And also polished!

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‘Sharpened to make a slaughter,

Polished [fn]to flash like lightning!’

Or shall we [fn]rejoice in the [fn]scepter of My son? The sword despises every tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:11 - “It is given to be polished, that it may be seized by the [fn]hand; the sword is sharpened and polished, to give it into the hand of the one who kills.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - “Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people; therefore slap your thigh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:13 - “For there is a testing; and what if even the [fn]scepter [fn]which the sword despises will be no more?” declares Lord Yahweh.

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“You therefore, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - that their hearts may melt, and many will be stumbling blocks at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:16 - “[fn]Show yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your [fn]edge is appointed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:17 - “And I will also strike My hands together, and I will [fn]cause My wrath to be at rest; I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

A Sword for Slaughter

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And the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “Now as for you, son of man, [fn]make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And [fn]make a signpost; [fn]make it at the head of the way to the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20 - “You shall [fn]mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21 - “For the king of Babylon stands at the [fn]parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows; he asks the [fn]household idols; he looks at the liver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:22 - “Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to set battering rams, to open the mouth [fn]for killing, to lift up the voice with a shout of war, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - “And it will be to them like a worthless divination in their eyes; they have sworn solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.

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“Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Because you have made your iniquity 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 will be seized with the hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - ‘And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:26 - thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Remove the turban and take off the crown; this will [fn]no longer be the same. Make high that which is low and make low that which is high.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:27 - ‘A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it. This also will be no more until He comes to whom the legal judgment belongs, and I will give it to Him.’

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“Now as for you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,’ and say: ‘A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it [fn]to consume, that it may be like lightning—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - while they behold for you worthless visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:30 - ‘Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:31 - ‘And I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My fury, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, craftsmen of destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - ‘You will be [fn]fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, Yahweh, have spoken.’”
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LSB Footnotes
Ch 21:6 in Heb
Lit loins
Lit be dim
Lit flow
Some mss and versions Yahweh
Lit lightning to be to her
Or rejoice, the scepter of My son despising every tree?
Or rod
Lit palm
Or rod
Or which despises
Or Unite yourself
Lit face
Or appease
Or set for yourself
Lit cut out a hand
Lit cut it
Lit set
Lit mother
Heb teraphim
Lit in
Lit not this
Lit to finish
Lit food
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Ezekiel Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

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