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 20:47and tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned thereby.
• Ps 2:7–9I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
• Nah 1:10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
• Ps 89:38–45But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
• Amos 6:3–7Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Nah 3:3the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
• Jer 46:4Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
• Isa 34:5–6For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
• Isa 5:12–14The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
• Luke 21:34–35“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Esth 3:15The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
• Isa 22:12–14In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
• Hab 3:11The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
• Ps 89:26–32He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
• Ezek 21:25–27“‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
• 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 rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
• 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
• Rev 2:27He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

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