Ezekiel 21:5

(21:10) That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

In Context

4(21:9) But because I shall have cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked: therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north;

6(21:11) But thou, son of man, do thou sigh: as though with broken loins, and with bitterness [of grief] shalt thou sigh before their eyes.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:24(29:23) Even all the nations will say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? whence the heat of this great anger?

1 Kings 9:7Then will I cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed unto my name, will I cast away from my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by-word among all the nations;

Isaiah 55:11So shall ever be my word which goeth forth from my mouth, it shall not return unto me without effect; but it accomplisheth what I desire, and it prospereth in that whereto I have sent it.

Ezekiel 17:2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and propound a parable unto the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 21:30(21:35) Put back [the sword] into its sheath! in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy origin, will I judge thee.

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 →

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