Ezekiel 21:5

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Then everyone will know that I am the LORD, who drew my sword from its sheath– it will not be sheathed again!’

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 21:30 : 30 Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.
  • Nah 1:9 : 9 Denunciation and Destruction of Nineveh Whatever you plot against the LORD, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.
  • 1 Sam 3:12 : 12 On that day I will carry out against Eli everything that I spoke about his house– from start to finish!
  • Jer 23:20 : 20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has fully carried out his intended purposes. In days to come you people will come to understand this clearly.
  • Ezek 20:48 : 48 And everyone will see that I, the LORD, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”
  • Num 14:21-23 : 21 But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me, 23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.
  • Deut 29:24-28 : 24 Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?” 25 Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. 27 That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll. 28 So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”
  • 1 Kgs 9:7-9 : 7 then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations. 8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, saying,‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?’ 9 Others will then answer,‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who led their ancestors out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why the LORD has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
  • Isa 45:23 : 23 I solemnly make this oath– what I say is true and reliable:‘Surely every knee will bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm;
  • Isa 55:11 : 11 In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 21:3-4
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    86%

    3and say to them,‘This is what the LORD says: Look, I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

    4Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone from the south to the north.

  • Isa 34:5
    75%

    5He says,“Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”

  • Ezek 14:17
    75%

    17“Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say,‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.

  • Ezek 17:21
    74%

    21All the choice men among his troops will die by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Ezek 21:30-31
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    30Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.

    31I will pour out my anger on you; the fire of my fury I will blow on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, who are skilled in destruction.

  • Ezek 21:8-9
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    74%

    8The LORD’s message came to me:

    9“Son of man, prophesy and say:‘This is what the Lord says:“‘A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.

  • Ezek 29:8
    74%

    8“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal.

  • Ezek 21:15
    74%

    15So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

  • Ezek 38:21
    74%

    21I will call for a sword to attack Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign LORD; every man’s sword will be against his brother.

  • Ezek 11:8
    74%

    8You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ezek 21:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    11“‘He gave it to be polished, to be grasped in the hand– the sword is sharpened, it is polished– giving it into the hand of the executioner.

    12Cry out and moan, son of man, for it is wielded against my people; against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people. Therefore, strike your thigh.

    13“‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? declares the Sovereign LORD.’

  • Ezek 32:11
    73%

    11“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.

  • Ezek 20:48
    73%

    48And everyone will see that I, the LORD, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

  • Ezek 6:10
    73%

    10They will know that I am the LORD; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’

  • Jer 21:5
    72%

    5In anger, in fury, and in wrath I myself will fight against you with my mighty power and great strength!

  • Jer 25:31
    72%

    31The sounds of battle will resound to the ends of the earth. For the LORD will bring charges against the nations. He will pass judgment on all humankind and will hand the wicked over to be killed in war.’ The LORD so affirms it!

  • Ezek 5:17
    72%

    17I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken!”

  • Ezek 39:21
    72%

    21“I will display my majesty among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited among them.

  • Ezek 21:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17I too will clap my hands together, I will exhaust my rage; I the LORD have spoken.”

    18The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 24:14
    72%

    14“‘I the LORD have spoken; judgment is coming and I will act! I will not relent, or show pity, or be sorry! I will judge you according to your conduct and your deeds, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

  • Isa 66:16
    72%

    16For the LORD judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the LORD will kill many.

  • Ezek 11:10
    72%

    10You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 21:28
    72%

    28“As for you, son of man, prophesy and say,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says concerning the Ammonites and their coming humiliation; say:“‘A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning–

  • Ezek 5:13
    72%

    13Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my jealousy when I have fully vented my rage against them.

  • Amos 9:4
    71%

    4Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.”

  • Job 19:29
    71%

    29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”

  • Deut 32:41
    71%

    41I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!

  • Jer 16:21
    71%

    21The LORD said,“So I will now let this wicked people know– I will let them know my mighty power in judgment. Then they will know that my name is the LORD.”

  • Amos 9:10
    70%

    10All the sinners among my people will die by the sword– the ones who say,‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’

  • Isa 45:23
    70%

    23I solemnly make this oath– what I say is true and reliable:‘Surely every knee will bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm;

  • Exod 22:24
    70%

    24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

  • Mic 5:15
    70%

    15With furious anger I will carry out vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”

  • Ezek 26:6
    70%

    6and her daughters who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 25:29
    70%

    29For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, affirm it!’

  • Ezek 25:17
    70%

    17I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I exact my vengeance upon them.’”

  • Jer 4:28
    70%

    28Because of this the land will mourn and the sky above will grow black. For I have made my purpose known and I will not relent or turn back from carrying it out.”

  • Ezek 25:7
    70%

    7take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Ezek 5:15
    70%

    15You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Job 20:25
    70%

    25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

  • Ezek 28:23
    70%

    23I will send a plague into the city and bloodshed into its streets; the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it from every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Hos 11:6
    70%

    6A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.

  • Jer 9:16
    70%

    16I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”

  • Isa 13:15
    70%

    15Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.

  • Ezek 17:24
    70%

    24All the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it!’”