God’s Sword of Judgment
Ezekiel 21:5
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Then all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have taken My sword from its sheath, not to return it again.’
- KJV
- That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
- WEB
- All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’
- ASV
- and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
- LSV
- And all flesh has known that I, YHWH, || Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, || It does not turn back anymore.
- YLT
- And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more.
- DBY
- and all flesh shall know that I Jehovah have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more.
- DRC
- That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.
- GNV
- That all flesh may knowe that I the Lord haue drawen my sworde out of his sheath, and it shall not returne any more.
- JPS21:10
- and all flesh shall know that I the LORD have drawn forth My sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
- LXXE21:10
- and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more.
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Original-language editions
- WLC21:10
- וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ כָּל־בָּשָׂ֔ר כִּ֚י אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֔ה הוֹצֵ֥אתִי חַרְבִּ֖י מִתַּעְרָ֑הּ לֹ֥א תָשׁ֖וּב עֽוֹד׃KJV:Ezek.21.5
- LXX-Br21:10
- καὶ ἐπιγνώσεται πᾶσα σὰρξ, διότι ἐγὼ Κύριος ἐξέσπασα τὸ ἐγχειρίδιόν μου ἐκ τοῦ κολεοῦ αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἀποστρέψει οὐκέτι.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Ezekiel 21:30Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
- Nahum 1:9Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
- Ezekiel 20:48Then all people will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”
- Jeremiah 23:20The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.
- 1 Samuel 3:12On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.
- Deuteronomy 29:24–28So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’ And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their…
- Numbers 14:21–23“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD, not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and…
- Isaiah 45:23By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
- 1 Kings 9:7–9then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.…
- Isaiah 55:11so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 21:10 in some Bibles
- 21:5 in most Bibles