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Ezekiel 21:13 Meaning & Commentary – Testing and Purging
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
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Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
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Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be…
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And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
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It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
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Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
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Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
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And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands…
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Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
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That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
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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 his sheath against all flesh from the south…