Ezekiel 21:13

For there is a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more?” declares the Lord God.

‘Sharpened to make a slaughter,
Polished to flash like lightning!’
Or shall we rejoice, the rod of My son despising every tree?

“If the scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end,’

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

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

“If the scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

‘Sharpened to make a slaughter,
Polished to flash like lightning!’
Or shall we rejoice, the rod of My son despising every tree?

A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it. This also will be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.’