Ezekiel 21:10 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁰ It is sharpened to make a slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning!’ Or shall we rejoice? My son, you have despised the rod, every stick!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ It [the sword of Babylon] is sharpened that it may make a slaughter, polished that it may flash and glitter like lightning! Shall we then rejoice and make mirth [when such a calamity is impending]? But the rod or scepter of My son [Judah] rejects and views with contempt every tree [that is, since God's promise long ago to Judah is certain, he believes Judah's scepter must remain no matter what power arises against it]! [Gen. 49:9, 10; II Sam. 7:23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ For utter slaughter it is sharpened, polished to flash like lightning. Let’s not rejoice, because no one will escape the purge.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ It has been sharpened, so that it may cut down victims! It has been polished, so that it may shine! You are disturbing the scepter of my son. You have cut down every tree.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may glitter. Thou removest the sceptre of my son: thou hast cut down every tree.

Ezekiel 21:10 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:14

“I am to be his Father, and he is My son. If he does perversely, I shall reprove him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

Esther 3:15

The runners went out, hastened by the sovereign’s command, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Shushan. The sovereign and Haman then sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was in confusion.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Jeremiah 23:20

The displeasure of יהוה shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.

Jeremiah 46:4

“Harness the horses, and mount up, you horsemen! Stand with helmets, polish the spears, put on the armour!

Ezekiel 20:47

“And you shall say to the forest of the South, ‘Hear the word of יהוה! Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am kindling a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree and every dry tree in you – the blazing flame is not quenched. And it shall burn all faces from the south to the north.

Ezekiel 21:11

“And He has given it to be polished, to be taken by the hand. This sword is sharpened and polished, to be given into the hand of the killer.

Ezekiel 21:4

“Because I shall cut off from you the righteous and the wrong, therefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north.

Nahum 1:10

Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried.

Nahum 3:3

mounted horsemen with bright sword and glittering spear, and many wounded, and a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses, they stumble over the corpses –

Habakkuk 3:11

Sun, moon shall stand still in their places. Like light Your arrows fly, Like lightning is Your glittering spear.

Revelation 2:27

and he shall shepherd them with a rod of iron, as the potter’s vessels shall be broken to pieces, as I also have received from My Father.