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 21:16 - Revised Standard Version Cut sharply to right and left where your edge is directed. 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 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.”
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;
And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword; ah! it is made like lightning, it is polished for slaughter.
I also will clap my hands, and I will satisfy my fury; I the Lord have spoken.”
mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.
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;
for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord.