Ezekiel 21:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

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  • Jer 17:27 : 27 But if you will not listen to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
  • Ezek 21:7 : 7 And it shall be, when they say to you, Why do you sigh? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be as weak as water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 21:10 : 10 It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter: should we then rejoice? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.
  • Ezek 21:22 : 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mound, and to build a fort.
  • Ezek 21:28 : 28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is polished, to consume because of the glittering:
  • Ezek 15:7 : 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
  • Ezek 20:47 : 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it.
  • 2 Sam 17:10 : 10 And he also who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt: for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

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  • Ezek 21:14
    79%

    14You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their private chambers.

  • Ezek 21:3-12
    10 verses
    77%

    3And say to 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.

    4Seeing 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 south to the north:

    5That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return anymore.

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

    7And it shall be, when they say to you, Why do you sigh? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be as weak as water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the Lord GOD.

    8Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished:

    10It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter: should we then rejoice? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.

    11And he has given it to be polished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

    12Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors of the sword shall be upon my people: strike therefore upon your thigh.

  • Ezek 21:28
    76%

    28And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is polished, to consume because of the glittering:

  • Ezek 32:9-12
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    75%

    9I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

    10Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

    11For thus says the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

    12By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.

  • Ezek 21:20
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    20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Ezek 21:16
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    16Go one way or the other, either on the right hand, or on the left, wherever your face is set.

  • Ezek 11:8
    74%

    8You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 38:21
    73%

    21And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

  • Deut 32:25
    73%

    25The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.

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

  • Isa 13:15
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    15Everyone who is found will be thrust through; and everyone who is joined to them will fall by the sword.

  • Jer 50:36-37
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    36A sword is upon the liars; and they shall turn foolish: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

    37A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mixed people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become like women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

  • Ezek 21:22
    73%

    22At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mound, and to build a fort.

  • Ezek 28:7
    73%

    7Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

  • Ezek 21:31
    72%

    31And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

  • Jer 22:7
    72%

    7And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Ezek 22:31
    72%

    31Therefore have I poured out My indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 21:18
    72%

    18The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

  • Jer 51:3
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    3Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his armor; and do not spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

  • Ezek 32:20
    72%

    20They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.

  • Ezek 7:15
    72%

    15The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within; he who is in the field shall die by the sword, and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

  • Ezek 29:8
    72%

    8Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and cut off man and beast from you.

  • Ps 37:15
    72%

    15Their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

  • Ezek 17:21
    72%

    21And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and you shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

  • Lam 2:21
    72%

    21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied.

  • Amos 9:4
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    4And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
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    71%

    8He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall build a fort against you, and cast a mound against you, and lift up a shield against you.

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Ezek 11:6
    71%

    6You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1He also cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Bring near those who have charge over the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Ezek 24:21
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    21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.

  • Jer 21:10
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    10For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, says the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

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    2A harsh vision is revealed to me; the treacherous one deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All its sighing have I made to cease.

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    8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noon: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

  • Amos 9:1
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    1I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Strike the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake; and cut them in the head, all of them. I will slay the last of them with the sword; he who flees from them shall not flee away, and he who escapes of them shall not be delivered.

  • Jer 49:37
    71%

    37For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life: and I will bring disaster upon them, even my fierce anger, says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.