Ezekiel 21:16 · KJV
“Go thee one way or other, {either} on the right hand, {or} on the left, whithersoever thy face {is} set. {or on...: Heb. set thyself, take the left hand}”
— Ezekiel 21:16
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. {point: or, glittering, or, fear} {wrapped up: or, sharpened}
I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said {it}.
Ezekiel 21 — Context
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. {hands...: Heb. hand to hand}
15I 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. {point: or, glittering, or, fear} {wrapped up: or, sharpened}
16Go thee one way or other, {either} on the right hand, {or} on the left, whithersoever thy face {is} set. {or on...: Heb. set thyself, take the left hand}
17I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said {it}.
18The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:46
And thine elder sister {is} Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, {is} Sodom and her daughters. {thy younger: Heb. lesser than thou}
Ezekiel 21:20
Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
Ezekiel 14:17
Or {if} I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Genesis 13:9
{Is} not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if {thou wilt take} the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if {thou depart} to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Ezekiel 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:
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