Ezekiel 21 (NET)

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Ezekiel 21:1¹(21:6) The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Ezekiel 21:2²“Son of man, turn toward Jerusalem and speak out against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of IsraelCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 20:46 Ezek 4:7 Ezek 25:2 Ezek 28:21 Acts 6:13-14 Amos 7:16 Deut 32:2 Eph 6:19 Ezek 29:2 Ezek 36:1

Ezekiel 21:3³and 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 5:8 Jer 21:13 Job 9:22 Ezek 14:17 Ezek 14:21 Ezek 21:19 Ezek 21:9-11 Ezek 5:12 Nah 2:13 Nah 3:5

Ezekiel 21:4⁴Because 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 20:47 Ezek 7:2 Ezek 6:11-14

Ezekiel 21:5⁵Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath—it will not be sheathed again!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:30 Nah 1:9 1 Sam 3:12 Ezek 20:48 Jer 23:20 1 Kgs 9:7-9 Deut 29:24-28 Isa 45:23 Isa 55:11 Num 14:21-23

Ezekiel 21:6⁶“And you, son of man, groan with an aching heart and bitterness; groan before their eyes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 6:11 Isa 22:4 Dan 5:6 Dan 8:27 Ezek 12:3-5 Ezek 21:12 Ezek 37:20 Ezek 4:12 Ezek 9:4 Hab 3:16

Ezekiel 21:7⁷When they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you will reply, ‘Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone will faint, and every knee will be wet with urine.’ Pay attention—it is coming and it will happen, declares the Sovereign Lord.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 7:17 Ezek 7:26 Heb 12:12 Isa 13:7 Jer 50:43 Nah 2:10 2 Kgs 21:12 2 Sam 17:10 Deut 20:8 Exod 15:15

Ezekiel 21:8⁸The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Ezekiel 21:9⁹“Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:28 Ezek 21:3 Isa 34:5-6 Amos 9:4 Deut 32:41-42 Ezek 21:15 Isa 27:1 Isa 66:16 Jer 12:12 Jer 15:2

Ezekiel 21:10¹⁰It is sharpened for slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning! “‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 110:5-6 Ezek 20:47 2 Sam 7:14 Amos 6:3-7 Eccl 3:4 Esth 3:15 Ezek 19:11-14 Ezek 21:25-27 Hab 3:11 Isa 22:12-14

Ezekiel 21:11¹¹“‘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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:19 Jer 25:33 Jer 25:9 Jer 51:20-23

Ezekiel 21:12¹²Cry 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:6 Joel 1:13 Ezek 21:14 Ezek 30:2 Ezek 6:11 Ezek 9:8 Jer 25:34 Jer 31:12 Jer 31:19 Mic 1:8

Ezekiel 21:13¹³“‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? declares the Sovereign Lord.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 8:2 Ezek 21:10 Ezek 21:25 Job 9:23

Ezekiel 21:14¹⁴“And you, son of man, prophesy, and clap your hands together. Let the sword strike twice, even three times! It is a sword for slaughter, a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 24:1 Num 24:10 2 Kgs 24:10-16 Ezek 6:11 Lev 26:21 Lev 26:24 1 Kgs 20:30 1 Kgs 22:25 2 Kgs 25:1-7 Amos 9:2

Ezekiel 21:15¹⁵So 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!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:10 Jer 17:27 2 Sam 17:10 Ezek 15:7 Ezek 20:47 Ezek 21:22 Ezek 21:28 Ezek 21:7 Ps 22:14

Ezekiel 21:16¹⁶Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 14:17 Ezek 16:46 Ezek 21:20 Ezek 21:4 Gen 13:9

Ezekiel 21:17¹⁷I too will clap my hands together, I will exhaust my rage; I the Lord have spoken.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 5:13 Ezek 21:14 Ezek 22:13 Zech 6:8 Deut 28:63 Ezek 16:42 Isa 1:24 Num 24:10

Ezekiel 21:18¹⁸The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Ezekiel 21:19¹⁹“You, son of man, mark out two routes for the king of Babylon’s sword to take; both of them will originate in a single land. Make a signpost and put it at the beginning of the road leading to the city.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 4:1-3 Jer 1:10 Ezek 5:1-17

Ezekiel 21:20²⁰Mark out the routes for the sword to take: ‘Rabbah of the Ammonites’ and ‘Judah with Jerusalem in it.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 1:14 Jer 49:2 Deut 3:11 Ezek 25:5 Ps 125:1-2 Ps 48:12-13 2 Chr 26:9 2 Chr 32:5 2 Chr 33:14 2 Sam 12:26

Ezekiel 21:21²¹For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: He shakes arrows, he consults idols, he examines animal livers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 17:5 Judg 18:20 Prov 16:33 Acts 16:16 Gen 31:19 Gen 31:30 1 Sam 15:23 2 Kgs 23:24 Deut 18:10 Hos 3:4

Ezekiel 21:22²²Into his right hand comes the portent for Jerusalem—to set up battering rams, to give the signal for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 4:2 Ezek 26:9 1 Sam 17:20 Exod 32:17-18 Jer 32:24 Jer 33:4 Jer 51:14 Jer 52:4 Job 39:25 Josh 6:10

Ezekiel 21:23²³But those in Jerusalem will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, but the king of Babylon will accuse them of violations in order to seize them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 5:15 Ezek 21:24 Ezek 29:16 1 Kgs 17:18 2 Chr 36:13 2 Kgs 24:20-25:7 Ezek 11:3 Ezek 12:22 Ezek 17:13-19 Isa 28:14-15

Ezekiel 21:24²⁴“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have brought up your own guilt by uncovering your transgressions and revealing your sins through all your actions, for this reason you will be taken by force.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 4:2 Amos 9:1-3 Ezek 16:16-22 Ezek 22:24-31 Ezek 22:3-12 Ezek 23:5-21 Ezek 24:7 Isa 22:17-18 Isa 3:9 Jer 15:2

Ezekiel 21:25²⁵“‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of final punishment,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 35:5 2 Chr 36:13 Ezek 17:19 Ezek 21:29 Jer 52:2 Ezek 30:3 Ezek 7:6 Jer 24:8 Jer 51:13 Ps 7:9

Ezekiel 21:26²⁶this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Tear off the turban; take off the crown! Things must change. Exalt the lowly; bring low the exalted!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 17:24 Ps 75:7 Jer 13:18 Jer 52:31-34 Ezek 16:12 Jer 52:9-11 Luke 1:52 1 Sam 2:7-8 2 Kgs 25:27 2 Kgs 25:6

Ezekiel 21:27²⁷A total ruin I will make it! Indeed, this will not be until he comes to whom is the right, and I will give it to him.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 5:2 Jer 23:5-6 Luke 1:32 Zech 9:9 Ps 2:6 1 Pet 3:22 Gen 49:10 Hag 2:21-22 John 1:9 Mal 3:1

Ezekiel 21:28²⁸“As for you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says concerning the Ammonites and their coming humiliation: “‘A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:20 Ezek 21:9-10 Zeph 2:8-10 Amos 1:13-15 Ezek 25:2-7 Jer 12:12 Jer 49:1-5

Ezekiel 21:29²⁹while seeing false visions about you and reading lying omens about you — to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of final punishment.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:25 Ezek 22:28 Jer 27:9 Ps 37:13 Ezek 12:24 Ezek 13:10 Ezek 13:23 Ezek 13:6 Ezek 35:5 Isa 44:25

Ezekiel 21:30³⁰Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:38 Gen 15:14 Jer 47:6-7 Ezek 16:3-4 Ezek 21:4-5 Ezek 28:13 Ezek 28:15

Ezekiel 21:31³¹I 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 14:19 Ezek 7:8 Hag 1:9 Isa 30:33 Jer 4:7 Jer 6:22-23 Nah 1:6 Ps 18:15 Ezek 22:20-22 Hab 1:6-10

Ezekiel 21:32³²You will become fuel for the fire— your blood will stain the middle of the land; you will no longer be remembered, for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 25:10 Mal 4:1 Ezek 20:47-48 Ezek 21:30 Isa 34:3-7 Matt 24:35 Matt 3:10 Matt 3:12 Num 23:19 Zeph 2:9

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