If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
Parallel translations
- KJV If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
- BSB If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- NKJV If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready.
- NASB ¶If one does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and taken aim.
- NLT If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
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- Acts 3:19“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
- Matt 3:10“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
- Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- Deut 32:41if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
- Ps 85:4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
- Ezek 18:30“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
- Jer 31:18–19“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- Ezek 33:11Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
- Isa 27:1In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
- Ezek 21:23It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.
- Isa 34:5For 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.
- Ezek 21:9–11“Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says: “A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished.
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