Ezekiel 21:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

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  • Ezek 21:3 : 3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
  • Ezek 21:15 : 15 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.
  • Ezek 21:28 : 28 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say thou, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
  • Amos 9:4 : 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • Deut 32:41-42 : 41 If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
  • Job 20:25 : 25 He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.
  • Ps 7:11-13 : 11 God is a righteous judge, Yea, a God that hath indignation every day. 12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts] .
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
  • Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  • Isa 66:16 : 16 For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.
  • Jer 12:12 : 12 Destroyers are come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace.
  • Jer 15:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

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  • Ezek 21:10-15
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    10it 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 contemneth every tree.

    11And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

    12Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh.

    13For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.

    14Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy 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 that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.

    15I 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.

  • Ezek 21:28-29
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    28And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say thou, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

    29while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

  • Ezek 21:8
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    8And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Ezek 21:1-6
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    1And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

    2Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

    3and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

    4Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

    5and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

    6Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.

  • Ezek 33:1-2
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    1And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

    2Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

  • Ezek 11:8
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    8Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Ezek 14:17
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    17Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;

  • Ezek 32:11
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    11For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

  • Joel 3:9-10
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    9Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

    10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

  • Job 19:29
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    29Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.

  • Ezek 21:18-20
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    18The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying,

    19Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

    20Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Ezek 38:21
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    21And I will call for a sword against him unto all my mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

  • Ezek 12:21
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    21And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Ezek 11:4
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    4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

  • Ezek 29:8
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    8Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast.

  • Ezek 22:1
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    1Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Isa 34:5
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    5For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

  • Ezek 22:23
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    23And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Ezek 22:17
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    17And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Ezek 28:11
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    11Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Jer 50:36
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    36A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

  • Ezek 24:15
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    15Also the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Isa 49:2
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    2and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close:

  • Ezek 30:1
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    1The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

  • Jer 14:13
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    13Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

  • Jer 4:10
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    10Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life.

  • Jer 14:15
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    15Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

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    1And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Ezek 6:3
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    3and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

  • Jer 47:6
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    6O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still.

  • Isa 21:6
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    6For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he seeth:

  • Ezek 39:9-10
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    9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;

    10so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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    41If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.