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Ezekiel 21 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Babylon as God’s Sword of Judgment

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:1 - The word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:2 - “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:3 - and say to her: ‘This is what the LORD says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:4 - Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:5 - Then all people will know that I the LORD have drawn my sword from its sheath; it will not return again.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:6 - “Therefore groan, son of man! Groan before them with broken heart and bitter grief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7 - And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become faint and every leg will be wet with urine.’ It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:8 - The word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:9 - “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord says: “ ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:10 - sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! “ ‘Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son? The sword despises every such stick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:11 - “ ‘The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped with the hand; it is sharpened and polished, made ready for the hand of the slayer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel. They are thrown to the sword along with my people. Therefore beat your breast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:13 - “ ‘Testing will surely come. And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue? declares the Sovereign LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:14 - “So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike twice, even three times. It is a sword for slaughter— a sword for great slaughter, closing in on them from every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - So that hearts may melt with fear and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter[fn] at all their gates. Look! It is forged to strike like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:16 - Slash to the right, you sword, then to the left, wherever your blade is turned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:17 - I too will strike my hands together, and my wrath will subside. I the LORD have spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:18 - The word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “Son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same country. Make a signpost where the road branches off to the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20 - Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21 - For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:22 - Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - It will seem like a false omen to those who have sworn allegiance to him, but he will remind them of their guilt and take them captive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:24 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because you people have brought to mind your guilt by your open rebellion, revealing your sins in all that you do—because you have done this, you will be taken captive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - “ ‘You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:26 - this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Take off the turban, remove the crown. It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:27 - A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come; to him I will give it.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:28 - “And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the Ammonites and their insults: “ ‘A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - Despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about you, it will be laid on the necks of the wicked who are to be slain, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:30 - “ ‘Let the sword return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:31 - I will pour out my wrath on you and breathe out my fiery anger against you; I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, men skilled in destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more; for I the LORD have spoken.’ ”
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Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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