Ezekiel 21:10

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Sharpened is it to make a great slaughter, and furbished that it may glitter: Shall we then make mirth? It contemneth the rodde of my sonne as all other trees.

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  • Ps 110:5-6 : 5 The Lorde at thy right hande: wyll wounde euen kinges in the day of his wrath. 6 He wyll iudge the Heathen: he wyll fill euery place with dead bodyes, he wyll smyte the head of a great countrey.
  • Ezek 20:47 : 47 And say to the forest of the south, Heare the worde of the Lord, thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde I wyll kindle a fire in thee, that shall consume all the greene trees, with all the dry: the continuall flambe shall not be quenched, and euery face from the south to the north shalbe burnt therin.
  • Ezek 21:25-27 : 25 O thou shamefull wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, euen when wickednesse shall haue an ende, 26 Thus saith the Lorde God, I wyll take away the Diademe, and put of the crowne: this shalbe no more the same, I wyll exalt the humble, and abase him that is hye. 27 Ouerthrowen, ouerthrowen, ouerthrowen wyll I put it, and it shall not be, vntyll he come to whom the iudgement belongeth, and to whom I haue geuen it.
  • Amos 6:3-7 : 3 Ye that put farre away the euyll day, and approche to the seate of iniquitie. 4 They lye vpon beddes of yuorie, and stretche them selues vpon their couches, and eate the lambes out of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall. 5 They sing to the sounde of the viole, they inuent to them selues instrumentes of musicke, like Dauid. 6 They drinke wine in bowles, and annoynt them selues with chiefe ointmentes: but no man is sorie for the affliction of Ioseph. 7 Therfore nowe shall they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorowe of them that stretched them selues is at hande.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For whyles the thornes cleaue together, and whyles they banquet out their feastes, they are deuoured vp as very drie stubble.
  • Nah 3:3 : 3 The horseman lifting vp both the glistering blade of the sword & also the shining speare, many wounded, many corpses, and no end of carcasses, they shall stumble at dead bodies.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sonne and moone stoode still in their habitation, at the light of thyne arrowes they went, and at the bright shining of thy speares.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 Take heede to your selues, lest at any tyme your heartes be ouercome with surfettyng and dronkennesse, and cares of this lyfe, and so the daye come vpon you vnwares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on al them that dwell on the face of ye whole earth.
  • Rev 2:27 : 27 And he shall rule them with a rodde of yron: and as the vessels of a potter, shall they be broken to sheuers:
  • Eccl 3:4 : 4 A tyme to weepe, and a tyme to laugh: a tyme to mourne, & a tyme to daunce.
  • Isa 5:12-14 : 12 In their feastes are harpes and lutes, tabrettes and pipes, and wine: but they regarde not the worke of the Lord, and consider not the operatio of his handes. 13 Therfore commeth my folke into captiuitie, because they haue no vnderstandyng: Their glorie is famished with hunger, and their multitude dryed vp with thirst. 14 Therfore gapeth hell and openeth her mouth marueilous wyde, that their glorie, multitude, and wealth, with such as reioyce in her, may descende into it.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And in that day dyd the Lorde God of hoastes call men vnto weepyng and mournyng, to baldnesse and girdyng about with sackcloth. 13 And beholde they haue ioy and gladnesse, slaying oxen, and kyllyng sheepe, eatyng fleshe, and drynkyng wine: Let vs eate and drynke, for to morowe we shall dye. 14 And it came to the eares of the Lorde of hoastes, This iniquitie shall not be purged from you tyll ye dye, saith the Lorde God of hoastes.
  • Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For my sworde shalbe bathed in heauen, and shall immediatly come downe to iudgement vpon Idumea, and vpon the people which I haue cursed. 6 And the Lordes sworde shalbe full of blood, and be rusty with the fatnesse and blood of lambes and goates, with the fatnesse of the kidneys of weathers: For the Lord shall kyll a great offering in Bozra, and a great slaughter in the lande of Idumea.
  • Jer 46:4 : 4 Harnesse your horses, and set your selues vpon them, set your sallets fast on, bryng foorth speares, scoure your swordes, and put on your brestplates.
  • Ezek 19:11-14 : 11 And she had strong roddes for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted on hye among the braunches, & she appeared in her height with the multitude of her braunches. 12 But she was pluckt vp in wrath, cast out vpon the grounde, the east wynde dryed vp her fruite her braunches were broken of & withered, as for the roddes of her strength, the fire consumed them. 13 And nowe she is planted in the wildernesse, in a dry and thirstie grounde. 14 And there is a fire gone out of the rodde of her brauches, it hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rodde for a scepter to rule: This is a lamentation, and shalbe for a lamentation.
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be his father, and he shalbe my sonne: If he sinne, I will chasten him with the rodde of men, and with the plagues of the children of men.
  • Esth 3:15 : 15 And the postes went in all the haste according to the kinges commaundement, and in Susan the chiefe citie was the commaundement deuised: And the king and Haman sate and dranke, when in the meane time the citie of Susan was disquieted.
  • Ps 2:7-9 : 7 I wyll declare the decree, God sayde vnto me: thou art my sonne, this day I haue begotten thee. 8 Desire of me, and I wyll geue thee the heathen for thyne inheritaunce: and the vttermost partes of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron: and breake them in peeces like a potters vessell.
  • Ps 89:26-32 : 26 He shall make inuocation vnto me: saying thou art my father O my God, and my fortresse of saluation. 27 And I will make him my first borne: in higher state then kinges of the earth. 28 My mercy wyll I kepe for hym euermore: and my couenaunt shal stand fast with hym. 29 His seede also wyll I make to endure for euer: and his throne as the dayes of heauen. 30 But if his chyldren forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgement: 31 if they breake my statutes, and kepe not my commaundementes, 32 I will then visite their transgressions with a rodde: and their wickednesse with stripes.
  • Ps 89:38-45 : 38 But thou hast abhorred & forsake thine annoynted: & art sore displeased at him. 39 Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt: thou hast disgraced his crowne, castyng it on the grounde. 40 Thou hast ouerthrowe all his walles: and broken downe his strong holdes. 41 All they that go by the way spoyle hym: he is become a rebuke vnto his neyghbours. 42 Thou hast exalted the ryght hande of his enemies: and made all his aduersaries to reioyce. 43 Thou hast turned the harde edge of his sworde: and thou hast not lifted him vp in the battayle. 44 Thou hast brought his noble estate to an ende: and hast cast his throne downe to the grounde. 45 Thou hast shortened the dayes of his youth: and thou hast couered him with shame. Selah.

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