Verse 15
Ezekiel 21:15
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is furbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְמַ֨עַן טְבֹ֤חַ טֶ֨בַח֙ הוּחַ֔דָּה לְמַעַן הֱיֵה לָ֥/הּ בָּ֖רָק מֹרָ֑טָּה א֣וֹ נָשִׂ֔ישׂ שֵׁ֥בֶט בְּנִ֖/י מֹאֶ֥סֶת כָּל עֵֽץ
English Translation
For the purpose of slaughtering a slaughter that is hidden, for the purpose of being a flash of light or a prince who despises every tree.
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Chapter 21 Context
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
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Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prop...
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And say to the land of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Behold I come against thee, and I w...
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And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just, and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth...
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That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.
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And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.
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And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because i...
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
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Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Say: The sword, the sword is sharpe...
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It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of m...
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And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furb...
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Cry, and howl, 0 son of man, for this sword is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel,...
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Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lo...
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Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled,...
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And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all their gates I have set the dread of the sh...
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Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the left, which way soever thou hast a mind to set th...
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And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy my indignation: I the Lord have spoken.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
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And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the sword of the king of Babylon to come: both shall com...
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Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and to Juda unto...
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For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling...
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On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slau...
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And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle in vain, and imitating the leisure of sab...
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Therefore thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Because you have remembered your iniquity, and have disc...
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But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come that hath been appointed in the time of...
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Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath ex...
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I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but this was not done till he came to whom judgme...
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And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim) concerning the children of...
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Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the...
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Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy...
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And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will...
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Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the midst of the land, thou shalt be forgotte...
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