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Ezekiel 21:9-11
International Standard Version
Ezekiel 21:9-11
International Standard Version
9 “Son of Man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says:
‘A sword!
A sword is being sharpened.
It’s also being polished.
10 It’s being sharpened for slaughter,
and being polished to gleam like lightning.’
“We shouldn’t be rejoicing, should we,
while my Son’s scepter, the sword,
is despising[a] every tree?[b]
11 It’s intended to be polished
so it can be grasped in the hand.
The sword is sharpened.
It’s polished for placement
into the hand of the executioner.”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 21:10 The verb despising requires the Heb. antecedent the sword, which The Heb. lacks
- Ezekiel 21:10 I.e. every living human being in Israel
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