Ezekiel 21:13

Surely it will be a trial!
And what if the sword despises even the scepter?
The scepter will not continue.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.

It is sharpened for slaughter,
polished to flash like lightning!
Should we rejoice?
The scepter of My son,
the sword despises every tree.

When disaster brings sudden death,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,
the day has come
for your punishment.”

During a severe testing by affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the wealth of their generosity.

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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.

When disaster brings sudden death,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

During a severe testing by affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the wealth of their generosity.

It is sharpened for slaughter,
polished to flash like lightning!
Should we rejoice?
The scepter of My son,
the sword despises every tree.

A ruin, a ruin,
I will make it a ruin!
Yet this will not happen
until He comes;
I have given the judgment to Him.