Verse 20
Ezekiel 21:20
Literal Standard Version
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Appoint a way for the coming of the sword, || To Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, || And to Judah, in fortified Jerusalem.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְמַ֣עַן לָ/מ֣וּג לֵ֗ב וְ/הַרְבֵּה֙ הַ/מִּכְשֹׁלִ֔ים עַ֚ל כָּל שַׁ֣עֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם נָתַ֖תִּי אִבְחַת חָ֑רֶב אָ֛ח עֲשׂוּיָ֥ה לְ/בָרָ֖ק מְעֻטָּ֥ה לְ/טָֽבַח
English Translation
For the sake of the heart and to increase the stumbling blocks upon all their gates, I have given the weapon of the sword, a thing made for slaughter.
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Chapter 21 Context
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And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
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“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and prophesy to the holy places, and prophesy to the gr...
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and you have said to the ground of Israel, Thus said YHWH: Behold, I am against you, || And have bro...
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Because that I have cut off righteous and wicked from you, || Therefore My sword goes out from its s...
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And all flesh has known that I, YHWH, || Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, || It does not...
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And you, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, indeed, sigh before their eyes with bitterness,
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and it has come to pass, when they say to you, Why are you sighing? That you have said: Because of t...
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And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
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“Son of man, prophesy, and you have said, Thus said YHWH: Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and al...
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It is sharpened so as to slaughter a slaughter. It is polished so as to have brightness, || Or do we...
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And He gives it for polishing, || For laying hold of by the hand. It is sharpened—the sword—and poli...
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Cry and howl, son of man, || For it has been among My people, || It is among all the princes of Isra...
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Because it is a trier, || And what if it is even despising the scepter? It will not be, a declaratio...
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And you, son of man, prophesy, || And strike hand on hand, || And the sword is bent a third time, ||...
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To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, || I have set the point of a sword by all their gates....
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Take possession of the right, place yourself at the left, || To where your face is appointed.
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And I also, I strike My hand on My hand, || And have caused My fury to rest; I, YHWH, have spoken.”
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And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
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“And you, son of man, appoint two ways for yourself, for the coming in of the sword of the king of B...
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Appoint a way for the coming of the sword, || To Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, || And to Judah, in f...
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For the king of Babylon has stood at the head of the way, || At the top of the two ways, to use divi...
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The divination for Jerusalem has been at his right, || To place battering-rams, || To open the mouth...
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And it has been to them as a false divination in their eyes, || Who have sworn oaths to them, || But...
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Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Because of your causing your iniquity to be remembered, || In your t...
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And you, wounded, wicked one, || Prince of Israel, whose day has come, || In the time of the iniquit...
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Thus said Lord YHWH: Turn aside the turban, and carry away the crown, || This—not this—make high the...
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An overturn, overturn, overturn, I make it, || Also this has not been until the coming of Him, || Wh...
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And you, son of man, prophesy, and you have said, Thus said Lord YHWH concerning the sons of Ammon,...
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In seeing a vain thing for you, || In divining a lie for you, || To put you on the necks of the woun...
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Turn it back to its scabbard; I judge you || In the place where you were produced, || In the land of...
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And I have poured My indignation on you, || I blow against you with the fire of My wrath, || And hav...
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You are fuel for the fire, || Your blood is in the midst of the land, || You are not remembered, ||...
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