Ezekiel 21:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Ezekiel 21:16 Cross References

Genesis 13:9

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 14:17

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;

Ezekiel 16:46

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.

Ezekiel 21:15

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.

Ezekiel 21:17

I will also smite mine hands together, and I will satisfy my fury: I the LORD have spoken it.

Ezekiel 21:20

Thou shalt appoint a way, for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

Ezekiel 21:4

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:

Ezekiel 28:23

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.