Ezekiel 21:16

And do you go on, sharpen yourself on the right and on the left wherever your face may set itself.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

In Context

15and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate—they are given up to the slaughter of the sword: it is well fitted for slaughter, it is well fitted for glittering.

17And I also will clap my hands, and let loose my fury: I the Lord have spoken it.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:9Behold! is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me; if you go to the left, I will go to the right, and if you go to the right, I will go to the left.

Ezekiel 16:46Your elder sister who dwells on your left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, that dwells on the right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Ezekiel 21:20that the sword may enter in upon Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and upon Judea, and upon Jerusalem in the midst thereof.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:9-18

Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 8 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord ; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. 12 Cry and… Read the whole commentary →

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