Ezekiel 21:15

In order to melt their hearts and to multiply their fallen, I have set the sword for slaughter at all their gates. Ah! It is made like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter. 1

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In The King James Version

I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

In Context

14Now you, son of man, prophesy and hit your two hands together, for the sword will attack even a third time! 1 A sword for the ones to be slaughtered! It is a sword for the many to be slaughtered, piercing them everywhere! 1

16You, sword! Strike to the right! Strike to the left! Go wherever your face is turned. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 22:14I am being poured out like water, 1 and all my bones are dislocated. 1 My heart is like wax; 1 it melts away within my inner parts. 1

Ezekiel 15:7For I will set my face against them. Though they come out from the fire, yet the fire will consume them; so you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

Ezekiel 21:7Then it will happen that they will ask you, 'For what reason are you groaning?' Then you will say, 'Because of the news that is coming, for every heart will faint away, and every hand will falter! Every spirit will grow faint, and every knee will flow like water. Behold! It is coming and it will be like this!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.'”

Ezekiel 21:22In his right hand will be an omen about Jerusalem, to set battering rams against it, to open his mouth to order the slaughter, 1 to sound a war cry, to set battering rams against the gates, 1 to build a ramp, and to erect siege towers. 1

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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