Ezekiel 21:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall My sword go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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:

Common English Bible

⁴ In order to cut off the righteous and wicked from you, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone from south to north.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ But in as much as I have slain among you the just and the impious, for this reason my sword will go forth from its sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the north.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the north.

Ezekiel 21:4 Cross References

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon all the bare heights in the desert, spoilers have come, for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other; no one shall be safe.

Jeremiah 25:27

Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink; get drunk and vomit; fall and rise no more because of the sword that I am sending among you.

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 20:46

Mortal, set your face toward the south, preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb;

Ezekiel 20:47

say to the forest of the Negeb: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God: I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.

Ezekiel 21:10

it is sharpened for slaughter, honed to flash like lightning! How can we make merry? You have despised the rod and all discipline.

Ezekiel 21:9

Mortal, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord; say: A sword, a sword is sharpened; it is also polished;

Ezekiel 7:2

You, O mortal, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Deuteronomy 32:40

For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,