Ezekiel 21:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Attack to the right! Engage to the left! —wherever your edge is directed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Turn [O sword] and cut right or cut left, whichever way your lust for blood and your edge direct you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Stab again and again! Plunge right, plunge left, wherever your edge goes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ Be thou sharpened: go to the right hand or to the left, which way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face.

Ezekiel 21:16 Cross References

Genesis 13:9

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 14:17

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,

Ezekiel 16:46

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.

Ezekiel 21:15

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.

Ezekiel 21:17

I, too, will strike hand to hand; I will satisfy my fury; I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 21:20

mark out the road for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites or to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.

Ezekiel 21:4

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,

Ezekiel 28:23

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.