Gather yourselves together. Go to the right. Set yourselves in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set.
Parallel translations
- KJV Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
- BSB Slash to the right; set your blade to the left—wherever your blade is directed.
- ESV Cut sharply to the right; set yourself to the left, wherever your face is directed.
- NKJV “Swordsat the ready! Thrust right! Set your blade! Thrust left— Wherever your edge is ordered!
- NASB Prove yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.
- NLT O sword, slash to the right, then slash to the left, wherever you will, wherever you want.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ezek 16:46Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
- Ezek 21:4Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.
- Ezek 21:20You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
- Gen 13:9Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
- Ezek 14:17“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’
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