Thematic Bible
Ezekiel 21:1 (show verse)
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Ezekiel 21:2 (show verse)
"Son of man, set your face toward Teman, and drop your word toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
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Ezekiel 21:3 (show verse)
and tell the land of Israel, 'Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
Ezekiel 21:4 (show verse)
Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the Negev to the north:
Ezekiel 21:5 (show verse)
and all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more."'
Ezekiel 21:6 (show verse)
"Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.
Ezekiel 21:7 (show verse)
It shall be, when they tell you, 'Why do you sigh?' that you shall say, 'Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD.'"
Ezekiel 21:8 (show verse)
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Ezekiel 21:9 (show verse)
"Son of man, prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the LORD: Say, "A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;
Ezekiel 21:10 (show verse)
it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? The rod of my son, it condemns every tree.
Ezekiel 21:11 (show verse)
It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer."'
Ezekiel 21:12 (show verse)
Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
Ezekiel 21:13 (show verse)
For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more?" says the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 21:14 (show verse)
"You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.
Ezekiel 21:15 (show verse)
I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: Ah. It is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
Ezekiel 21:16 (show verse)
'Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.'
Ezekiel 21:17 (show verse)
I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, the LORD, have spoken it."
Ezekiel 21:18 (show verse)
The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,
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Ezekiel 21:19 (show verse)
"Also, you son of man, appoint two ways that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
Ezekiel 21:20 (show verse)
You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem, the fortified.
Ezekiel 21:21 (show verse)
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
Arrow » Divination by
Arrows » The ancients divined by
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Conquests by
Divination » Miscellaneous topics relating to
Divination » Effected through » The flight of arrows
Divination » Effected through » Inspecting the inside of beasts
Liver » Superstitious rites with
Magic » Divination
Sorcery » Practiced » By the babylonians
Sorcery » By images
Sorcery » By entrails
Arrows » The ancients divined by
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Conquests by
Divination » Miscellaneous topics relating to
Divination » Effected through » The flight of arrows
Divination » Effected through » Inspecting the inside of beasts
Liver » Superstitious rites with
Magic » Divination
Sorcery » Practiced » By the babylonians
Sorcery » By images
Sorcery » By entrails
Ezekiel 21:22 (show verse)
In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
Ezekiel 21:23 (show verse)
It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.
Ezekiel 21:24 (show verse)
"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.
Ezekiel 21:25 (show verse)
"'You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
Ezekiel 21:26 (show verse)
thus says the Lord GOD: "Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this shall be no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high."
Ezekiel 21:27 (show verse)
I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.'
Ezekiel 21:28 (show verse)
"You, son of man, prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, "A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
Ezekiel 21:29 (show verse)
while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
Ezekiel 21:30 (show verse)
Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
Ezekiel 21:31 (show verse)
I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
Ezekiel 21:32 (show verse)
You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, the LORD, have spoken it."'"