Ezekiel 21:5
That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:24And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?
1 Kings 9:7I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.
Isaiah 55:11So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.
Ezekiel 17:2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
Ezekiel 21:30Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:2-8
Threatenings against Israel; Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 And 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. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall… Read the whole commentary →