(A)“Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, say:

(B)“A sword, a sword is sharpened
    and also polished,

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and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: (A)Behold, I am against you and will draw (B)my sword from its sheath and (C)will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.

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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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(A)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
(B)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”

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28 “And you, (A)son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God (B)concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, (C)A sword, a sword (D)is drawn for the slaughter. (E)It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning—

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15 that their hearts may melt, and many stumble.[a] At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; (A)it is taken up[b] for slaughter.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:15 Hebrew many stumbling blocks
  2. Ezekiel 21:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered taken up is uncertain

And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

(A)“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
    and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
    and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’

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12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
    destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no flesh has peace.

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16 For (A)by fire (B)will the Lord enter into judgment,
    and by his sword, with all flesh;
    and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

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The Redemption of Israel

27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong (A)sword will punish (B)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, (C)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay (D)the dragon that is in the sea.

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11 God is (A)a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels (B)indignation every day.

12 If a man[a] does not repent, God[b] will (C)whet his sword;
    he has (D)bent and (E)readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
    making his (F)arrows (G)fiery shafts.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
  2. Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he

25 It (A)is drawn forth and comes out of his body;
    (B)the glittering point comes out of his (C)gallbladder;
    (D)terrors come upon him.

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41 if I (A)sharpen my flashing sword[a]
    and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
    and will repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
    and (B)my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
    from the (C)long-haired heads of the enemy.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:41 Hebrew the lightning of my sword

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