Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
Ezekiel 21:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Attack to the right! Engage to the left! —wherever your edge is directed. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Turn [O sword] and cut right or cut left, whichever way your lust for blood and your edge direct you. American Standard Version (1901) Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set. Common English Bible Stab again and again! Plunge right, plunge left, wherever your edge goes. Catholic Public Domain Version Be sharpened! Go to the right or to the left, whichever way is the desire of your face. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be thou sharpened: go to the right hand or to the left, which way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face. |
Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, “Let a sword pass through the land,” and I cut off humans and animals from it,
Your big sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; your little sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
therefore hearts melt, and many stumble. At all their gates I have set the point of the sword. Ah! It is made for flashing; it is drawn for slaughter.
I, too, will strike hand to hand; I will satisfy my fury; I the Lord have spoken.
mark out the road for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites or to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.
Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north,
for I will send pestilence into it, and bloodshed into its streets; and the dead shall fall in its midst, by the sword that is against it on every side. And they shall know that I am the Lord.