10 (A)sharpened for slaughter,
    (B)polished to flash like lightning!

(Or (C)shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, (D)with everything of wood.)[a]

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  1. Ezekiel 21:10 Probable reading; Hebrew The rod of my son despises everything of wood

The Lord is at your (A)right hand;
    he will (B)shatter kings on (C)the day of his wrath.
He will (D)execute judgment among the nations,
    (E)filling them with corpses;
he will (F)shatter chiefs[a]
    over the wide earth.

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  1. Psalm 110:6 Or the head

47 Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God, Behold, (A)I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every (B)green tree in you and every (C)dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and (D)all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.

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27 and (A)he will (B)rule[a] them with a rod of iron, (C)as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.

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  1. Revelation 2:27 Greek shepherd

Watch Yourselves

34 “But watch yourselves (A)lest (B)your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and (C)cares of this life, and (D)that day come upon you suddenly (E)like a trap. 35 For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

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11 (A)The sun and moon stood still in their place
    (B)at the light of your arrows as they sped,
    at the flash of your glittering spear.

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Horsemen charging,
    flashing sword and (A)glittering spear,
(B)hosts of slain,
    heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
    they stumble over the bodies!

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10 For they are (A)like entangled thorns,
    like drunkards as they drink;
    (B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

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(A)O you who put far away the day of disaster
    (B)and bring near the seat of violence?

“Woe to those (C)who lie on (D)beds of ivory
    (E)and stretch themselves out on their couches,
and eat lambs from the flock
    (F)and calves from the midst of the stall,
(G)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David (H)invent for themselves instruments of music,
(I)who drink wine in bowls
    and (J)anoint themselves with the finest oils,
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
(K)Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile,
    and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”

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25 And you, O profane[a] (A)wicked one, prince of Israel, (B)whose day has come, (C)the time of your final punishment, 26 thus says the Lord God: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. (D)Exalt that which is low, and bring low that which is exalted. 27 A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. (E)This also shall not be, (F)until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.

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  1. Ezekiel 21:25 Or slain; also verse 29

11 Its strong stems became
    rulers' scepters;
it towered aloft
    among the thick boughs;[a]
it was seen in its height
    with the mass of its branches.
12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
(A)the east wind dried up its fruit;
    they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
    fire consumed it.
13 (B)Now it is planted in the wilderness,
    in a dry and thirsty land.
14 (C)And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots,
    has consumed its fruit,
(D)so that there remains in it no strong stem,
    no scepter for ruling.

This is (E)a lamentation and has become a lamentation.

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  1. Ezekiel 19:11 Or the clouds

(A)Harness the horses;
    mount, O horsemen!
Take your stations with your helmets,
    (B)polish your spears,
    put on your armor!

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For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    behold, it descends for judgment upon (A)Edom,
    upon the people (B)I have devoted to destruction.
The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
    it is gorged with fat,
    with the blood of lambs and goats,
    with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
(C)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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12 In that day (A)the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for (B)baldness and (C)wearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and drinking wine.
(D)“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”
14 The Lord of hosts (E)has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely (F)this iniquity will not be atoned for you (G)until you die,”
    says the Lord God of hosts.

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12 (A)They have lyre and harp,
    tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
(B)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
    or see the work of his hands.

13 Therefore my people go into exile
    (C)for lack of knowledge;[a]
their (D)honored men go hungry,[b]
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has (E)enlarged its appetite
    and opened (F)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem[c] and her multitude will go down,
    her revelers and he who (G)exults in her.

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  1. Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
  2. Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
  3. Isaiah 5:14 Hebrew her nobility

a time to (A)weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to (B)dance;

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38 But now you have (A)cast off and rejected;
    you are full of wrath against your (B)anointed.
39 You have (C)renounced (D)the covenant with your servant;
    you have (E)defiled his (F)crown in the dust.
40 You have (G)breached all his walls;
    you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
41 (H)All who pass by plunder him;
    he has become (I)the scorn of his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
    you have made all his enemies rejoice.
43 You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
    and you have not made him stand in battle.
44 You have made his splendor to cease
    and cast his throne to the ground.
45 You have cut short (J)the days of his youth;
    you have (K)covered him with shame. Selah

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26 He shall cry to me, ‘You are my (A)Father,
    my God, and (B)the Rock of my salvation.’
27 And I will make him the (C)firstborn,
    (D)the highest of the kings of the earth.
28 My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,
    and my (E)covenant will stand firm[a] for him.
29 I will establish his (F)offspring forever
    and his (G)throne as (H)the days of the heavens.
30 (I)If his children forsake my law
    and do not walk according to my rules,[b]
31 if they violate my statutes
    and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will punish their transgression with (J)the rod
    and their iniquity with stripes,

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  1. Psalm 89:28 Or will remain faithful
  2. Psalm 89:30 Or my just decrees

I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, (A)“You are my Son;
    today I have begotten you.
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
    and (B)the ends of the earth your possession.
You shall (C)break[a] them with (D)a rod of iron
    and dash them in pieces like (E)a potter's vessel.”

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  1. Psalm 2:9 Revocalization yields (compare Septuagint) You shall rule