Ezekiel 21:13
Good News Translation
I am testing my people, and if they refuse to repent, all these things will happen to them.

New Revised Standard Version
For consider: What! If you despise the rod, will it not happen? says the Lord GOD.

Contemporary English Version
I am testing my people, and they can do nothing to stop me. I, the LORD, have spoken.

New American Bible
for it is tested, and why not? Since you rejected my staff, should it not happen?— oracle of the Lord GOD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Because, etc.

a trial

Job 9:23 If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

2 Corinthians 8:2 That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity.

contemn

Ezekiel 21:10,25 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down every tree. . . .

it shall

Ezekiel 21:27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but this was not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth, and I will give it him.

Context
The LORD's Sword of Judgment
12Cry, and howl, O son of man, for this sword is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are delivered up to the sword with my people, strike therefore upon thy thigh, 13Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.14Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the slain be tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter, that maketh them stand amazed,…
Cross References
Psalm 10:3
For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

Ezekiel 21:12
Cry, and howl, O son of man, for this sword is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are delivered up to the sword with my people, strike therefore upon thy thigh,

Ezekiel 21:14
Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the slain be tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter, that maketh them stand amazed,

Ezekiel 21:12
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