Ezekiel 21

Ezekiel 21:2

Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem.

Lo, then, without all parables, I say unto thee plainly, O thou son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 21:4

Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

I will make no spare at all; but will sweep away every living man in the common destruction, even the righteous and the wicked: the righteous will I remove to their advantage and glory; the wicked, to their utter confusion.

Ezekiel 21:5

That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

That all flesh may know it is my judgment, that is thus severely and impartially executed upon Israel.

Ezekiel 21:6

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

Sigh thou therefore, O thou son of man, sigh so deeply and strongly, as to break thy girdle from thy loins; and, by this sighing of thine, intimate unto them that great sorrow, which is coming upon them.

Ezekiel 21:10

It contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

This sharp sword is not for correction, or for the pruning of superfluities, which I am wont to practise upon my beloved children; but for an utter excision, both of stock and branches; and will leave no way, either for the amendment or for the being of any in Israel.

Ezekiel 21:13

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemneth even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God.

Because it shall be a fiery trial indeed; and what if this sword scorn to rest in an affliction only of my people, but shall at once cut them off that they shall be no more? surely thus it shall do, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 21:17

I will cause my fury to rest. See chap. xvi. verse 42.

XXI. 19, 20. Also thou son of man, appoint thee two ways that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. Appoint a way, that the sword my come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defended. Describe thou in a table a draught of two ways, by which the sword of the king of Babylon may come: let the ways run on together, as coming from one place; and then, when they come to the parting of them, Let one way lead to Rabbath the city of the Ammonites, and another to Jerusalem the chief and defenced city of Judah.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination.

For the king of Babylon shall stand at the parting of two ways; and, being in a doubt whether way to take, shall use divinations for his direction.

Ezekiel 21:22

At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, &c.

The sorcerers and soothsayers shall agree upon his assaulting of Jerusalem; and shall thereupon give him advice, to prepare for that siege, to attempt the sacking and destruction thereof with all courage and violence.

Ezekiel 21:23

And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

But this prophecy of thine shall seem to them as a false prediction; even to them, which have dared to swear the certainty of the contrary success; but this great enemy will reckon with them, for all their former iniquity, and they shall be surprised with judgment. XXI. 25, 26. And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end. Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. And thou, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, Zedekiah, whose time of just punishment is now come, wherein thine iniquity shall be called to a full account and dispatch, Thus saith the Lord; Take away the kingdom from that treacherous prince: he shall not rule any more: let Jechoniah, who is now unregarded, be exalted; and let Zedekiah, who is now advanced, be brought low.

Ezekiel 21:27

I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

I will utterly overturn, for ever, this kingdom of Judah, and Israel; and it shall never be erected any more, until the Messiah come whose right it is; and to him will I spiritually give it.

Ezekiel 21:28

And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; &c.

Thus saith the Lord concerning the Ammonites, and that their reproach which they have been ever apt to cast upon my people; even thus say, Even for you, O ye children of Ammon, is the sword also prepared.

Ezekiel 21:30

Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Shall I cause that slaughter of thine to cease? No; I will inflict this vengeance upon thee, in thy very home, in the place where thou wert born and bred.

Ezekiel 21:31

And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath.

I will come against thee like a mighty and terrible tempest, in the fierce fury of my wrath.