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 at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
• Ezek 20:47And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
• Ps 2:7–9I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
• Nah 1:10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
• Ps 89:38–45But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
• Amos 6:3–7Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Nah 3:3The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
• Jer 46:4Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
• Isa 34:5–6For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
• Isa 5:12–14And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
• Luke 21:34–35And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Esth 3:15The posts went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
• Isa 22:12–14And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
• Hab 3:11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
• Ps 89:26–32He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
• Ezek 21:25–27And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
• Eccl 3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
• Ezek 19:11–14And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
• 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
• Rev 2:27And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

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