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 take the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Ezekiel 21:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Gather thee together, go to the right; set thyself in array, go to the left; whithersoever thy face is set. More versionsKing 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 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 take the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;
And thine elder sister is Samaria, that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and her daughters: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
I will also smite mine hands together, and I will satisfy my fury: I the LORD have spoken it.
Thou shalt appoint a way, for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
For I will send into her pestilence and blood in her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.