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It will not return <i>to its sheath</i> again. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>And when they say to you, Why do you groan? you shall say, Because of the news that is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will happen, declares the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Again the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to me, saying,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. Say,<br>            A sword, a sword sharpened<br>            And also polished!<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Sharpened to make a slaughter,<br>            Polished to flash like lightning!<br>            Or shall we rejoice, the rod of My son despising every tree?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>It is given to be polished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened and polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people, it is against all the officials of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people, therefore strike <i>your</i> thigh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>For <i>there is</i> a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more? declares the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap <i>your</i> hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>that <i>their</i> hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made <i>for striking</i> like lightning, it is wrapped up <i>in readiness</i> for slaughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Show yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is appointed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>I will also clap My hands together, and I will appease My wrath; I, the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, have spoken.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Instrument of Gods Judgment</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>The word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to me saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>As for you, son of man, make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>You shall mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Into his right hand came the divination, Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>And it will be to them like a false divination in their eyes; they have <i>sworn</i> solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore, thus says the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>, Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appearbecause you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>thus says the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>, Remove the turban and take off the crown; this <i>will</i> no longer <i>be</i> the same. Exalt that which is low and abase that which is high. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it. This also will be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it <i>to Him.</i><p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font> concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach, and say: A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for youto place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Return <i>it</i> to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/21-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, have spoken.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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