Ezekiel 21

1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.Cross-references: Deut 32:2 · Jer 26:11 · Ezek 4:3 · Ezek 4:7 · Ezek 6:2 · Ezek 20:46 · +10 more

3Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.Cross-references: Ex 15:9 · Lev 26:25 · Lev 26:33 · Deut 32:41 · Job 9:22 · Ps 17:13 · +21 more

4Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.Cross-references: Ezek 6:11 · Ezek 7:2 · Ezek 20:47

5All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’Cross-references: Num 14:21 · Deut 29:24 · 1Sam 3:12 · 1Ki 9:7 · Isa 45:23 · Isa 55:11 · +4 more

6“Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness.Cross-references: Isa 16:11 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 22:4 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 9:17 · Jer 19:10 · +12 more

7It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Ex 15:15 · Lev 26:36 · Deut 20:8 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 5:1 · 2Sam 17:10 · +22 more

8Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

9“Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says: “A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished.Cross-references: Deut 32:41 · Job 20:25 · Ps 7:11 · Isa 27:1 · Isa 34:5 · Isa 66:16 · +6 more

10It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:14 · Esth 3:15 · Ps 2:7 · Ps 89:26 · Ps 89:38 · Ps 110:5 · +14 more

11It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer.”’Cross-references: Jer 25:9 · Jer 25:33 · Jer 51:20 · Ezek 21:19

12Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people. It is on all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Therefore beat your thigh.Cross-references: Jer 25:34 · Jer 31:12 · Jer 31:19 · Ezek 6:11 · Ezek 9:8 · Ezek 21:6 · +4 more

13“For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Job 9:23 · Ezek 21:10 · Ezek 21:25 · 2Cor 8:2

14“You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together. Let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the fatally wounded. It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded, which enters into their rooms.Cross-references: Lev 26:21 · Lev 26:24 · Num 24:10 · 1Ki 20:30 · 1Ki 22:25 · 2Ki 24:1 · +7 more

15I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.Cross-references: 2Sam 17:10 · Ps 22:14 · Jer 17:27 · Ezek 15:7 · Ezek 20:47 · Ezek 21:7 · +3 more

16Gather yourselves together. Go to the right. Set yourselves in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set.Cross-references: Gen 13:9 · Ezek 14:17 · Ezek 16:46 · Ezek 21:4 · Ezek 21:20

17I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”Cross-references: Num 24:10 · Deut 28:63 · Isa 1:24 · Ezek 5:13 · Ezek 16:42 · Ezek 21:14 · +2 more

18Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,

19“Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.Cross-references: Jer 1:10 · Ezek 4:1 · Ezek 5:1

20You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.Cross-references: Deut 3:11 · 2Sam 5:9 · 2Sam 12:26 · 2Chr 26:9 · 2Chr 32:5 · 2Chr 33:14 · +7 more

21For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.Cross-references: Gen 31:19 · Gen 31:30 · Num 22:7 · Num 23:23 · Num 23:28 · Deut 18:10 · +14 more

22In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.Cross-references: Ex 32:17 · Josh 6:10 · Josh 6:20 · 1Sam 17:20 · Job 39:25 · Jer 32:24 · +5 more

23It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.Cross-references: Num 5:15 · 1Ki 17:18 · 2Ki 24:20 · 2Chr 36:13 · Isa 28:14 · Jer 52:3 · +6 more

24“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.Cross-references: Isa 3:9 · Isa 22:17 · Jer 2:34 · Jer 3:2 · Jer 5:27 · Jer 6:15 · +11 more

25“‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,Cross-references: 2Chr 36:13 · Ps 7:9 · Ps 9:5 · Jer 24:8 · Jer 51:13 · Jer 52:2 · +5 more

26the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:7 · 2Ki 25:6 · 2Ki 25:27 · Ps 75:7 · Ps 113:7 · Jer 13:18 · +8 more

27I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Num 24:19 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 72:7 · Isa 9:6 · Jer 23:5 · +30 more

28“You, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: “A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;Cross-references: Jer 12:12 · Jer 49:1 · Ezek 21:9 · Ezek 21:20 · Ezek 25:2 · Amos 1:13 · +1 more

29while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.Cross-references: Job 18:20 · Ps 37:13 · Isa 44:25 · Isa 47:13 · Jer 27:9 · Lam 2:14 · +7 more

30Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you.Cross-references: Gen 15:14 · Jer 47:6 · Ezek 16:3 · Ezek 16:38 · Ezek 21:4 · Ezek 28:13 · +1 more

31I will pour out my indignation on you. I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath. I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.Cross-references: Ps 18:15 · Isa 14:4 · Isa 30:33 · Isa 37:7 · Isa 40:7 · Jer 4:7 · +8 more

32You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”’”Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Isa 34:3 · Ezek 20:47 · Ezek 21:30 · Ezek 25:10 · Zeph 2:9 · +4 more