Ezekiel 21:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.

Cross References

Job 9:22

It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

Psalm 17:13

Arise, O Lord! confront them, overthrow them! Deliver my life from the wicked by thy sword,

Psalm 80:17

But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!

Psalm 83:15

so do thou pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy hurricane!

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’

Ecclesiastes 9:2

since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

Isaiah 10:5

Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff of my fury!

Isaiah 34:5

For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity,

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not listen to me, to keep the sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’ ”

Jeremiah 21:13

“Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, says the Lord; you who say, ‘Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?’

Jeremiah 21:14

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.”

Jeremiah 50:31

“Behold, I am against you, O proud one, says the Lord God of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

Jeremiah 51:20

“You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;

Jeremiah 51:25

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the Lord, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered delusions and seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let a sword go through the land; and I cut off from it man and beast;

Ezekiel 14:21

“For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

Ezekiel 21:19

“Son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them shall come forth from the same land. And make a signpost, make it at the head of the way to a city;

Ezekiel 24:9

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

Ezekiel 26:3

therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

Ezekiel 29:10

therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in the midst of you; a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

Ezekiel 5:8

therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather within your cities I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

Amos 7:4

Thus the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

Nahum 2:13

Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.

Nahum 3:5

Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame.

Zephaniah 2:12

You also, O Ethiopians, shall be slain by my sword.

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.