#### Ezekiel 21

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30} {31} {32} {33} {34} {35} {36} {37}

^ Ezk 21.1: (20.45) Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
^ Ezk 21.2: (20.46) Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
^ Ezk 21.3: (20.47) And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
^ Ezk 21.4: (20.48) And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
^ Ezk 21.5: (20.49) Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
^ Ezk 21.6: (21.1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
^ Ezk 21.7: (21.2) Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
^ Ezk 21.8: (21.3) And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
^ Ezk 21.9: (21.4) Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
^ Ezk 21.10: (21.5) That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
^ Ezk 21.11: (21.6) Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy] loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
^ Ezk 21.12: (21.7) And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak [as] water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
^ Ezk 21.13: (21.8) Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
^ Ezk 21.14: (21.9) Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
^ Ezk 21.15: (21.10) It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, [as] every tree.
^ Ezk 21.16: (21.11) And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
^ Ezk 21.17: (21.12) Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon [thy] thigh.
^ Ezk 21.18: (21.13) Because [it is] a trial, and what if [the sword] contemn even the rod? it shall be no [more], saith the Lord GOD.
^ Ezk 21.19: (21.14) Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thine] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men that are] slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
^ Ezk 21.20: (21.15) I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that [their] heart may faint, and [their] ruins be multiplied: ah! [it is] made bright, [it is] wrapped up for the slaughter.
^ Ezk 21.21: (21.16) Go thee one way or other, [either] on the right hand, [or] on the left, whithersoever thy face [is] set.
^ Ezk 21.22: (21.17) I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said [it].
^ Ezk 21.23: (21.18) The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
^ Ezk 21.24: (21.19) Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose [it] at the head of the way to the city.
^ Ezk 21.25: (21.20) Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
^ Ezk 21.26: (21.21) For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made [his] arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
^ Ezk 21.27: (21.22) At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint [battering] rams against the gates, to cast a mount, [and] to build a fort.
^ Ezk 21.28: (21.23) And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
^ Ezk 21.29: (21.24) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, [I say], that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
^ Ezk 21.30: (21.25) And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end,
^ Ezk 21.31: (21.26) Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this [shall] not [be] the same: exalt [him that is] low, and abase [him that is] high.
^ Ezk 21.32: (21.27) I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no [more], until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
^ Ezk 21.33: (21.28) And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword [is] drawn: for the slaughter [it is] furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
^ Ezk 21.34: (21.29) Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.
^ Ezk 21.35: (21.30) Shall I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
^ Ezk 21.36: (21.31) And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, [and] skilful to destroy.
^ Ezk 21.37: (21.32) Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no [more] remembered: for I the LORD have spoken [it].