Ezekiel 21:3
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21:3and say to them,4 ‘This is what the Lord says: Look,5 I am against you.6 I will draw my sword7 from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.8
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- 4 Heb “the land of Israel.”
- 5 The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.
- 6 Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (), 1:–2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘hinnenî êlêkâ,’ ” 45 (1933): 101–8.
- 7 This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.
- 8 Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4–6; 18:1–20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (), 2:25–26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (), 1:; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
and say to her: ‘This is what the Lord says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
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and say to it, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
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NLTNew Living Translation
Tell her, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am your enemy, O Israel, and I am about to unsheath my sword to destroy your people—the righteous and the wicked alike.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
And you must say to the land of Israel, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “Look! I am against you, and I will draw out my sword from its sheath, and I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
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KJV 1900King James Version
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
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