Ezekiel 21:3
and thou hast said unto the ground of Israel: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, And have brought out My sword from its scabbard, And have cut off from thee righteous and wicked.
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Exodus 15:9The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: —
Leviticus 26:33And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.
Job 9:22It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Psalms 80:17Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.
Ecclesiastes 9:2The whole [is] as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.
Isaiah 34:5For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.
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 →