Ezekiel 21 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Parable of the Sword of the LORD

Eze 21:1And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

Eze 21:2'Son of man, set thy face unto Jerusalem, and prophesy unto the holy places, and prophesy unto the ground of Israel;

Eze 21:3

Eze 21:3and 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.

Eze 21:4

Eze 21:4Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north.

Eze 21:5

Eze 21:5And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more.

Eze 21:6

Eze 21:6And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes,

Eze 21:7

Eze 21:7and it hath come to pass, when they say unto thee, For what art thou sighing? that thou hast said: Because of the report, for it is coming, And melted hath every heart, And feeble hath been all hands, And weak is every spirit, And all knees go -- waters, Lo, it is coming, yea, it hath been, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

Eze 21:8

Eze 21:8And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

Eze 21:9

Eze 21:9'Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said Jehovah, say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.

Eze 21:10

Eze 21:10So as to slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened. So as to have brightness it is polished, Desire hath rejoiced the sceptre of my son, It is despising every tree.

Eze 21:11

Eze 21:11And he giveth it for polishing, For laying hold of by the hand. It is sharpened -- the sword -- and polished, To give it into the hand of a slayer.

Eze 21:12

Eze 21:12Cry and howl, son of man, For it hath been among My people, It is among all the princes of Israel, Cast unto the sword have been My people. Therefore strike on thy thigh,

Eze 21:13

Eze 21:13Because it is a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising? It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Eze 21:14

Eze 21:14And thou, son of man, prophesy, And smite hand on hand, And bent is the sword a third time, The sword of the wounded! It is the sword of the wounded -- the great one, That is entering the inner chamber to them.

Eze 21:15

Eze 21:15To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapt up for slaughter.

Eze 21:16

Eze 21:16Take possession of the right, place thyself at the left, Whither thy face is appointed.

Eze 21:17

Eze 21:17And I also, I smite My hand on my hand, And have caused My fury to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken.'

The Instrument of God's Judgment

Eze 21:18

Eze 21:18And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

Eze 21:19

Eze 21:19'And thou, son of man, appoint for thee two ways, for the coming in of the sword of the king of Babylon; from one land they come forth, both of them, and a station prepare thou, at the top of the way of the city prepare it.

Eze 21:20

Eze 21:20A way appoint for the coming of the sword, Unto Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, And to Judah, in Jerusalem -- the fenced.

Eze 21:21

Eze 21:21For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver.

Eze 21:22

Eze 21:22At his right hath been the divination -- Jerusalem, To place battering-rams, To open the mouth with slaughter, To lift up a voice with shouting, To place battering-rams against the gates, To pour out a mount, to build a fortification.

Eze 21:23

Eze 21:23And it hath been to them as a false divination in their eyes, Who have sworn oaths to them, And he is causing iniquity to be remembered to be caught.

Eze 21:24

Eze 21:24Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your causing your iniquity to be remembered, In your transgressions being revealed, For your sins being seen, in all your doings, Because of your being remembered, By the hand ye are caught.

Eze 21:25

Eze 21:25And thou, wounded, wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end!

Eze 21:26

Eze 21:26Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn aside the mitre, and bear away the crown, This -- not this -- the low make high, And the high make low.

Eze 21:27

Eze 21:27An overturn, overturn, overturn, I make it, Also this hath not been till the coming of Him, Whose is the judgment, and I have given it.

Eze 21:28

Eze 21:28And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the sons of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and thou hast said: A sword, a sword, open for slaughter, Polished to the utmost for brightness!

Eze 21:29

Eze 21:29In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end.

Eze 21:30

Eze 21:30Turn it back unto its scabbard, In the place where thou wast produced, In the land of thy birth I do judge thee.

Eze 21:31

Eze 21:31And I have poured on thee Mine indignation, With fire of My wrath I blow against thee, And have given thee into the hand of brutish men -- artificers of destruction.

Eze 21:32

Eze 21:32To the fire thou art for fuel, Thy blood is in the midst of the land, Thou art not remembered, For I, Jehovah, have spoken!'

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Ezekiel 21 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Parable of the Sword of the LORD

The Instrument of God's Judgment

Pericope