Ezekiel 21:10 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁰ It is sharpened for slaughter, honed to flash like lightning! How can we make merry? You have despised the rod, and all discipline.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ it is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ It [the sword of Babylon] is sharpened that it may make a slaughter, polished that it may flash and glitter like lightning! Shall we then rejoice and make mirth [when such a calamity is impending]? But the rod or scepter of My son [Judah] rejects and views with contempt every tree [that is, since God's promise long ago to Judah is certain, he believes Judah's scepter must remain no matter what power arises against it]! [Gen. 49:9, 10; II Sam. 7:23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ For utter slaughter it is sharpened, polished to flash like lightning. Let’s not rejoice, because no one will escape the purge.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ It has been sharpened, so that it may cut down victims! It has been polished, so that it may shine! You are disturbing the scepter of my son. You have cut down every tree.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may glitter. Thou removest the sceptre of my son: thou hast cut down every tree.

Ezekiel 21:10 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.

Esther 3:15

The couriers went quickly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Jeremiah 23:20

The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.

Jeremiah 46:4

Harness the horses; mount the steeds! Take your stations with your helmets, whet your lances, put on your coats of mail!

Ezekiel 20:47

say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.

Ezekiel 21:11

The sword is given to be polished, to be grasped in the hand; It is sharpened, the sword is polished, to be placed in the slayer's hand.

Ezekiel 21:4

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;

Nahum 1:10

Like thorns they are entangled, like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.

Nahum 3:3

Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, piles of dead, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!

Habakkuk 3:11

the moon stood still in its exalted place, at the light of your arrows speeding by, at the gleam of your flashing spear.

Revelation 2:27

to rule them with an iron rod, as when clay pots are shattered—