Ezekiel 21:10

The sword is sharpened for slaughter and polished to flash like lightning, so there is no cause for mirth. The verse warns against complacency, though its final clause is debated.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 110:5–6The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
• Ezek 20:47Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
• Ps 2:7–9I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
• Nah 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
• Ps 89:38–45Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
• Amos 6:3–7You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
• Nah 3:3Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
• Jer 46:4Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!
• Isa 34:5–6When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
• Isa 5:12–14At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
• Luke 21:34–35But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
• Esth 3:15The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.
• Isa 22:12–14On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
• Hab 3:11Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
• Ps 89:26–32He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
• Ezek 21:25–27And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’
• Eccl 3:4a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
• Ezek 19:11–14It had strong branches, fit for a ruler’s scepter. It towered high above the thick branches, conspicuous for its height and for its dense foliage.
• 2 Sam 7:14I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
• Rev 2:27He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—just as I have received authority from My Father.

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