13 For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise (A)the rod?”[a] declares the Lord God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:13 Or For it is a testing; and what if even the rod despises? It shall not be!

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

for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and (A)their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

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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,

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

23 When (A)disaster brings sudden death,
    he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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