Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version So that hearts may melt with fear and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter at all their gates. Look! It is forged to strike like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter. New Living Translation Let their hearts melt with terror, for the sword glitters at every gate. It flashes like lightning and is polished for slaughter! English Standard Version that their hearts may melt, and many stumble. At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; it is taken up for slaughter. Berean Standard Bible So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter. King James Bible I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. New King James Version I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, That the heart may melt and many may stumble. Ah! It is made bright; It is grasped for slaughter: New American Standard Bible so that their hearts will waver, and many fall at all their gates. I have granted the slaughter of the sword. Oh! It is made for striking like lightning, it is sharpened in readiness for slaughter. NASB 1995 that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter. NASB 1977 that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter. Legacy Standard Bible that their hearts may melt, and many will be stumbling blocks at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter. Amplified Bible so that hearts may melt, and many will fall at their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made [to flash] like lightning; it is pointed and sharpened for slaughter. Christian Standard Bible I have appointed a sword for slaughter at all their gates, so that their hearts may melt and many may stumble. Yes! It is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter. Holman Christian Standard Bible I have appointed a sword for slaughter at all their gates, so that their hearts may melt and many may stumble. Yes! It is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter. American Standard Version I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter. Aramaic Bible in Plain English That their heart will be broken and sorrows be multiplied in all their gates, I have delivered them the sword that is sharpened, and shining, and ready for slaughter Brenton Septuagint Translation and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate - they are given up to the slaughter of the sword: it is well fitted for slaughter, it is well fitted for glittering. Contemporary English Version They will lose all courage and stumble with fear. My slaughtering sword is waiting at every gate, flashing and ready to kill. Douay-Rheims Bible And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is furbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter. English Revised Version I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter. GOD'S WORD® Translation I have appointed my sword to slaughter people at all their gates so that their hearts will sink and many will die. Yes! It's ready to flash like lightning. It's polished to kill. Good News Translation It makes my people lose courage and stumble. I am threatening their city with a sword that flashes like lightning and is ready to kill. International Standard Version so that their hearts melt and the number of those who stumble increase. I've set in place a slaughtering sword at the entrance to all their gates. Oh, no! It's made like lightning. It's drawn to slaughter. JPS Tanakh 1917 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied; ah! it is made glittering, it is sharpened for slaughter. Literal Standard Version To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, | I have set the point of a sword by all their gates. Aah! It is made for brightness, | Wrapped up for slaughter. Majority Standard Bible So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter. New American Bible That every heart may tremble; for many will be made to stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter, Made it flash lightning, drawn for slaughter. NET Bible So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter! New Revised Standard Version therefore hearts melt and many stumble. At all their gates I have set the point of the sword. Ah! It is made for flashing, it is polished for slaughter. New Heart English Bible I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: Ah. It is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter. Webster's Bible Translation I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is sharpened for the slaughter. World English Bible I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter. Young's Literal Translation To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapped up for slaughter. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The LORD's Sword of Judgment…14‘So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike two times, even three. It is a sword that slays, a sword of great slaughter closing in on every side! 15So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter. 16Slash to the right; set your blade to the left—wherever your blade is directed.… Cross References Joshua 2:11 When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone's courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below. 2 Samuel 17:10 Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him. Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me. Isaiah 59:10 Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead. Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness. Jeremiah 17:27 But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.'" Jeremiah 18:15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway. Treasury of Scripture I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. point. Ezekiel 21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort. Ezekiel 15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. Jeremiah 17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. that their Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 20:47 And 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. it is made Ezekiel 21:10,28 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree… wrapped up. Jump to Previous Ah Bright Brightness Death Doors Faint Fall Fallen Falling Flash Gates Glittering Grasped Heart Hearts Increased Lightning Melt Multiplied Multiply Order Point Pointed Polished Readiness Ruins Sharpened Slaughter Soft Stationed Striking Stumbling-Blocks Sword Threatening Whetted Wrapped WraptJump to Next Ah Bright Brightness Death Doors Faint Fall Fallen Falling Flash Gates Glittering Grasped Heart Hearts Increased Lightning Melt Multiplied Multiply Order Point Pointed Polished Readiness Ruins Sharpened Slaughter Soft Stationed Striking Stumbling-Blocks Sword Threatening Whetted Wrapped WraptEzekiel 21 1. Ezekiel prophesies against Jerusalem with a sign of sighing8. The sharp and bright sword 18. against Jerusalem 25. against the kingdom 28. and against the Ammonites (15) The point.--The Hebrew word occurs only here. The marginal rendering comes nearer its sense, but the exact meaning is the glance or the whirl of the sword. The glancing or the whirling motion of the sword was to be everywhere, "against all their gates." Their ruins be multiplied.--Literally, their stumbling blocks be multiplied. The thought is that in the coming desolation trouble shall be on every side and, in their perplexity, occasions for ill-advised action shall arise all around. "Bright" means "glittering." (Comp. Deuteronomy 32:41; Job 20:25; Nahum 3:3.) It is wrapped.--The margin has sharpened, but the exact sense is drawn, "drawn out for the slaughter." Verse 15. - For their ruins shall be multiplied, read, with the Revised Version, that their stumblings; and for wrapped up, pointed, or sharpened.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew So thatלְמַ֣עַן ׀ (lə·ma·‘an) Conjunction Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent their hearts לֵ֗ב (lêḇ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre may melt לָמ֣וּג (lā·mūḡ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 4127: To melt and many וְהַרְבֵּה֙ (wə·har·bêh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great may stumble, הַמִּכְשֹׁלִ֔ים (ham·miḵ·šō·lîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4383: A stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, a stumbling block I have appointed נָתַ֖תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set at עַ֚ל (‘al) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against all כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every their gates שַׁ֣עֲרֵיהֶ֔ם (ša·‘ă·rê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 8179: An opening, door, gate a sword חָ֑רֶב (ḥā·reḇ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword for slaughter. אִבְחַת־ (’iḇ·ḥaṯ-) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 19: Brandishing of a, sword Yes, אָ֛ח (’āḥ) Interjection Strong's 253: Ah!, alas! it is ready עֲשׂוּיָ֥ה (‘ă·śū·yāh) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make to flash like lightning; לְבָרָ֖ק (lə·ḇā·rāq) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1300: Lightning, a gleam, a flashing sword it is drawn מְעֻטָּ֥ה (mə·‘uṭ·ṭāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 4593: Thinned, sharp for slaughter. לְטָֽבַח׃ (lə·ṭā·ḇaḥ) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2875: Tebah -- son of Nahor Links Ezekiel 21:15 NIVEzekiel 21:15 NLT Ezekiel 21:15 ESV Ezekiel 21:15 NASB Ezekiel 21:15 KJV Ezekiel 21:15 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 21:15 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 21:15 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 21:15 French Bible Ezekiel 21:15 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 21:15 I have set the threatening sword against (Ezek. 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