Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Holman Bible
turn to the left—
wherever your blade is directed.
International Standard Version
Be sharp! Attack on the right, or parry to your left, wherever you point your sword.
A Conservative Version
Gather thee together. Go to the right. Set thyself in array. Go to the left, wherever thy face is set.
American Standard Version
Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Amplified
Turn O sword and cut right or cut left, whichever way your thirst for blood and your edge direct you.
Darby Translation
Gather up strength, go to the right hand, turn thee, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is appointed.
Julia Smith Translation
Unite thyself to the right, set thyself to the left, where thy face wavers.
King James 2000
Go you one way or the other, either on the right hand, or on the left, wherever your face is set.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Gather together, strike to the right; cause [to] go to the left, where your {edge} [is] directed.
Modern King James verseion
Sharpen yourself on the right! Set yourself on the left, wherever your face is set.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Get thee to some place alone, either upon the righthand or on the left, whithersoever thy face turneth.
NET Bible
Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.
New Heart English Bible
'Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.'
The Emphasized Bible
One firm stroke to the right. Turn to the left,- Whithersoever thine edge is directed,
Webster
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
World English Bible
Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.
Youngs Literal Translation
Take possession of the right, place thyself at the left, Whither thy face is appointed.
Themes
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 21:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Vision Of The Avenging Sword Of Yahweh
15 In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death. 16 Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered. 17 And I will put my hands together with a loud sound, and I will let my wrath have rest: I the Lord have said it.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 13:9
Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 16:46
Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, living at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Ezekiel 21:4
Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut off from you, for this cause my sword will go out from its cover against all flesh from the south to the north:
Ezekiel 21:20
Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to come to Rabbah in the land of the children of Ammon, and to Judah and to Jerusalem in the middle of her.