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 depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Ezekiel 21:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 depart to 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 man and beast from it:
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: 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 faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the Lord have said it.
Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defensed.
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:
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.