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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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