If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Ezekiel 21:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord GOD Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For this sword has been tested and proved [on others], and what if the rejecting and despising rod or scepter of Judah shall be no more but completely swept away? says the Lord God. American Standard Version (1901) For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah. Common English Bible He’s testing. When even the rod rejects, will it not certainly happen? This is what the LORD God says. Catholic Public Domain Version for it has been tested. And this one, when he will have overthrown the scepter, will not be, says the Lord God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God. |
If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth the LORD.
it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.
Cry and howl, son of man: for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.
And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.