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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 21 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Ezekiel 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/20.htm" title="Ezekiel 20">◄</a> Ezekiel 21 <a href="../ezekiel/22.htm" title="Ezekiel 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/21-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Sword of Judgment<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Therefore prophesy, son of man, set thy face steadfastly toward Jerusalem, and look toward their holy places, and thou shalt prophesy against the land of Israel, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and thou shalt say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of thee the transgressor and unrighteous. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Because I will destroy out of thee the unrighteous and the transgressor, <i>therefore</i> so shall my sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And thou, son of man, groan with the breaking of thy loins; thou shalt even groan heavily in their sight. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Wherefore dost thou groan? that thou shalt say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Son of man, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>that thou mayest slay victims; be sharpened that thou mayest be bright, ready for slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And he made it ready for his hand to hold: the sword is sharpened, it is ready to put into the hand of the slayer. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Cry out and howl, son of man: for this <i>sword</i> is come upon my people, this <i>sword is come</i> upon all the princes of Israel: they shall be as strangers: <i>judgment</i> with the sword is come upon my people: therefore clap thine hands, for sentence has been passed: <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and what if even the tribe be rejected? it shall not be, saith the Lord God.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And thou, son of man, prophesy, and clap thine hands, and take a second sword: the third sword is <i>the sword</i> of the slain, the great sword of the slain: and thou shalt strike them with amazement, lest the heart should faint <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate - they are given up to the slaughter of the sword: it is well fitted for slaughter, it is well fitted for glittering. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And do thou go on, sharpen thyself on the right and on the left whithersoever thy face may set itself. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I also will clap my hands, and let loose my fury: I the Lord have spoken <i>it</i>.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and thou, son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in: the two shall go forth of one country; and <i>there shall be</i> a force at the top of the way of the city, thou shalt set <i>it</i> at the top of the way, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>that the sword may enter in upon Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and upon Judea, and upon Jerusalem in the midst thereof. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to enquire of the graven images, and to examine <i>the victims</i>. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to build forts. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he was to them as one using divination before them, and he himself recounting his iniquities, that they might be borne in mind.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because ye have caused your iniquities to be remembered, in the discovery of your wickedness, so that your sins should be seen, in all your wickedness and in your <i>evil</i> practices; because ye have caused remembrance <i>of them</i>, in these shall ye be taken. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day, <i>even</i> and end, is come in a sea of iniquity, thus saith the Lord; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Thou hast taken off the mitre and put on the crown, it shall not have such <i>another</i> after it: thou hast abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Injustice, injustice, injustice, will I make it: woe to it: such shall it be until he comes to whom it belongs; and I will deliver <i>it</i> to him.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, O sword, sword, drawn for slaughter, and drawn for destruction, awake, that thou mayest gleam. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>While thou art seeing vain <i>visions</i>, and while thou art prophesying falsehoods, to bring thyself upon the necks of ungodly transgressors, the day is come, <i>even</i> an end, in a season of iniquity. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Turn, rest not in this place wherein thou wert born: in thine own land will I judge thee. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And I will pour out my wrath upon thee, I will blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver thee into the hands of barbarians skilled in working destruction. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Thou shalt be fuel for fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of thy land; there shall be no remembrance at all of thee: for I the Lord have spoken <i>it</i>.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>