Ezekiel 21:13

For {examine}! And what if also [the] rod will not be despising?' {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 21:10

It is sharpened to slaughter a slaughter, {polished to flash like lightning}! Or will we rejoice? A rod, my son, [is] despising every tree.

Job 9:23

When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at [the] despair of [the] innocent.

Ezekiel 21:25

And [as for] you, profane one, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come with [the] time of [the] punishment of [the] end,

2 Corinthians 8:2

that with a great ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and the extreme depth of their poverty have overflowed to the wealth of their generosity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Contemn

It shall

Bible References

Because, etc

Job 9:23
When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at [the] despair of [the] innocent.
2 Corinthians 8:2
that with a great ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and the extreme depth of their poverty have overflowed to the wealth of their generosity.

Contemn

Ezekiel 21:10
It is sharpened to slaughter a slaughter, {polished to flash like lightning}! Or will we rejoice? A rod, my son, [is] despising every tree.

It shall

Ezekiel 21:27
A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it! Also this has not [ever] happened; [it will remain] until the coming of [the one] [to] whom the judgment belongs and I have given it [to him].'