Ezekiel 21:13

because it shall be a trial. What shall be if it does not despise the rod? said the Lord GOD.

it is sharpened to slay victims; it is furbished that it may glitter; should we then make mirth? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.

If it is the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.

And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come in the time when the iniquity shall be brought to an end,

how that in a great trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches 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 it is the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.

how that in a great trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

it is sharpened to slay victims; it is furbished that it may glitter; should we then make mirth? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.

I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it, and it shall be no more until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it unto him.