Ezekiel 21:10
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10 it is sharpened for slaughter,
honed to flash like lightning!
How can we make merry?
You have despised the rod
and all discipline.[a]
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- 21.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 110:5-6
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5 The Lord is at your right hand;
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.(A)
6 He will execute judgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
he will shatter heads
over the wide earth.(B)
Ezekiel 20:47
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47 say to the forest of the Negeb: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God: I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.(A)
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Revelation 2:27
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- 2.27 Or to shepherd
Luke 21:34-35
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Exhortation to Watch
34 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,(A) 35 like a trap. For it will come upon all who live on the face of the whole earth.
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Habakkuk 3:11
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11 the moon stood still in its exalted place,
at the light of your arrows speeding by,
at the gleam of your flashing spear.(A)
Nahum 3:3
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3 Horsemen charging,
flashing sword and glittering spear,
piles of dead,
heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
they stumble over the bodies!(A)
Nahum 1:10
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10 Like thorns they are entangled;
like drunkards they are drunk;
they are consumed like dry straw.(A)
Amos 6:3-7
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3 you who put far away the evil day
and bring near a reign of violence?(A)
4 Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory
and lounge on their couches
and eat lambs from the flock
and calves from the stall,(B)
5 who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
and like David improvise on instruments of music,(C)
6 who drink wine from bowls
and anoint themselves with the finest oils
but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!(D)
7 Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile,
and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.(E)
Ezekiel 21:25-27
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25 As for you, vile, wicked prince of Israel,
you whose day has come,
the time of final punishment,(A)
26 thus says the Lord God:
Remove the turban, take off the crown;
things shall not remain as they are.
Exalt that which is low;
humble that which is high.(B)
27 A ruin, a ruin, a ruin—
I will make it!
(Such has never occurred.)
Until he comes whose right it is;
to him I will give it.(C)
Ezekiel 19:11-14
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11 Its strongest stem became
a ruler’s scepter;[a]
it towered aloft
among the clouds;
it stood out in its height
with its mass of branches.(A)
12 But it was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
its fruit was stripped off;
its strong stem was withered;
the fire consumed it.(B)
13 Now it is transplanted into the wilderness,
into a dry and thirsty land.(C)
14 And fire has gone out from its stem,
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.(D)
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- 19.11 Heb Its strongest stems became rulers’ scepters
Jeremiah 46:4
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4 Harness the horses;
mount the steeds!
Take your stations with helmets on,
whet the lances,
put on coats of mail!
Isaiah 34:5-6
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5 When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
upon Edom it will fall,
upon the people I have doomed to judgment.(A)
6 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.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.(B)
Isaiah 22:12-14
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12 On that day the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for baldness and putting on sackcloth,(A)
13 but instead there was joy and festivity,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating meat and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”(B)
14 The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,”
says the Lord God of hosts.(C)
Isaiah 5:12-14
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12 whose feasts consist of lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute and wine,
but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord
or see the work of his hands!(A)
13 Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge;
their nobles are dying of hunger,
and their multitude is parched with thirst.(B)
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite
and opened its mouth beyond measure;
the nobility of Jerusalem[a] and her multitude go down,
her throng and all who exult in her.(C)
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- 5.14 Heb her nobility
Ecclesiastes 3:4
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4 a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance;(A)
Psalm 89:38-45
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38 But now you have spurned and rejected him;
you are full of wrath against your anointed.(A)
39 You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dust.(B)
40 You have broken through all his walls;
you have laid his strongholds in ruins.(C)
41 All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.(D)
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
you have made all his enemies rejoice.(E)
43 Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword,
and you have not supported him in battle.(F)
44 You have removed the scepter from his hand[a]
and hurled his throne to the ground.(G)
45 You have cut short the days of his youth;
you have covered him with shame. Selah(H)
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- 89.44 Cn: Heb removed his cleanness
Psalm 89:26-32
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26 He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the Rock of my salvation!’(A)
27 I will make him the firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.(B)
28 Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him,
and my covenant with him will stand firm.(C)
29 I will establish his line forever
and his throne as long as the heavens endure.(D)
30 If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my ordinances,(E)
31 if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will punish their transgression with the rod
and their iniquity with scourges,(F)
Psalm 2:7-9
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7 I will tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to me, “You are my son;
today I have begotten you.(A)
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage
and the ends of the earth your possession.(B)
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”(C)
Esther 3:15
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15 The couriers went quickly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.(A)
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2 Samuel 7:14
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14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.(A)
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