Ezekiel 21:13

For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord GOD.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

12Cry and howl, son of man: for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

14Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.

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Cross References

Job 9:23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Ezekiel 21:25And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

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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