These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezekiel 21
Tanakh 32 verses
- 1 Then the of came unto me, saying:
- 2 Son of man, set thy toward , and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of ;
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say to the land of : Thus saith : 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.
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Job 9:22 Jeremiah 21:13 Ezekiel 21:19 Nahum 2:13 Nahum 3:5 Ezekiel 5:8 Ezekiel 14:21 Isaiah 34:5 Jeremiah 50:31 Jeremiah 51:20 Isaiah 10:5 Ezekiel 14:17 Jeremiah 47:6-7 Jeremiah 15:2-4 Ecclesiastes 9:2 Ezekiel 26:3 Leviticus 26:33 Zechariah 13:7 Zephaniah 2:12 Ezekiel 9:5-6 Leviticus 26:25 Deuteronomy 32:41-42 Exodus 15:9 Ezekiel 21:9-11 Psalm 17:13 Jeremiah 51:25 Ezekiel 5:12 -
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Seeing 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 from the south to the north;
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- 5 and all shall that I have drawn forth My sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
- 6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.
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And it shall be, when they say unto thee: Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say: Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every shall melt, and all hands shall be slack, and every shall be faint, and all knees shall drip with water; behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith .’
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Ezekiel 7:17 Nahum 2:10 Isaiah 13:7 Ezekiel 7:26 Jeremiah 50:43 1 Peter 4:7 Jeremiah 8:18 Ezekiel 12:22-28 Deuteronomy 20:8 Ezekiel 20:49 Luke 21:26 Joshua 5:1 Ezekiel 24:19 Job 4:3-4 Joshua 2:9-11 Isaiah 28:19 Isaiah 7:2 Leviticus 26:36 Exodus 15:15 Lamentations 5:17 2 Kings 21:12 Hebrews 12:12 Jeremiah 6:22-24 2 Samuel 17:10 Isaiah 35:3 Jeremiah 49:23 Ezekiel 7:2-12 Ezekiel 12:9-11 - 8 And the of came unto me, saying:
- 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith : Say: A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, And also furbished:
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It is sharpened that it may make a sore slaughter, It is furbished that it may glitter—Or shall we make mirth?—Against the rod of My son, contemning every tree.
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And 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.
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Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon My people, it is upon all the princes of ; they are thrust down to the sword with My people; smite therefore upon thy thigh.
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For there is a trial; and what if it contemn even the rod? It shall be no more, saith .
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- 14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of those to be slain; it is the sword of the great one that is to be slain, which compasseth them about.
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I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied; ah! it is made glittering, it is sharpened for slaughter.
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Go thee one way to the right, or direct thyself to the left; whither is thy set?
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I will also smite My hands together, and I will satisfy My fury; I have spoken it.’
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- 18 And the of came unto me, saying:
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Now, thou son of man, make thee two ways, that the sword of the of may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land; and mark a signpost, mark it clear at the head of the way to the city.
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- 20 Thou shalt make a way, that the sword may come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to in the fortified.
- 21 For the of standeth at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shaketh the arrows to and fro, he inquireth of the teraphim, he looketh in the liver.
- 22 In his right hand is the lot , to set battering rams, to open the mouth for the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
- 23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, who have weeks upon weeks! but it bringeth iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
- 24 Therefore thus saith : Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that your sins do appear in all your doings; because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
- 25 And thou, O wicked one, that art to be slain, the prince of , whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
- 26 thus saith : The mitre shall be removed, and the taken off; this shall be no more the same: that which is low shall be exalted, and that which is high abased.
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A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, will I make it; this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is, and I will give it him.
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Psalm 2:6 Haggai 2:21-22 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Genesis 49:10 Micah 5:2 Zechariah 6:12-13 Isaiah 9:6-7 Luke 1:32 John 1:9 Malachi 3:1 Daniel 2:44 Ezekiel 21:13 Matthew 28:18 Hosea 3:5 Daniel 9:25 Zechariah 9:9 Revelation 19:11-16 Numbers 24:19 Hebrews 12:26-27 Ezekiel 17:22-23 1 Peter 3:22 Luke 2:11 Amos 9:11-12 Philippians 2:9-10 Ezekiel 37:24-25 Ephesians 1:20-22 Malachi 4:2 Ezekiel 34:23 Jeremiah 33:21 Jeremiah 33:26 Luke 1:69 Psalm 72:7-10 Jeremiah 33:15-16 Haggai 2:7 Jeremiah 30:21 John 1:4 -
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And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their taunt; and say thou: O sword, O sword keen-edged, Furbished for the slaughter, To the uttermost, because of the glitterings;
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- 29 While they see falsehood unto thee, While they divine lies unto thee, To lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are to be slain, Whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end!—
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Cause it to return into its sheath!—In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thine origin, Will I judge thee.
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- 31 And I will pour out My indignation upon thee, I will blow upon thee with the fire of My wrath; And I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, Skilful to destroy.
- 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; Thy shall be in the midst of the land, Thou shalt be no more remembered; For I have spoken it.’