Ezekiel 21:30 "'Let the sword return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge you.

◄ Ezekiel 21:30 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"'Let the sword return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge you.

English Standard Version
Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

New American Standard Bible
Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

King James Bible
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Return it to its sheath! I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your origin.

International Standard Version
Return it to its scabbard. "At the place where you were formed, in the land of your origin, there is where I'll judge you.

American Standard Version
Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth, will I judge thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Darby Bible Translation
Restore it to its sheath. I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth.

Young's Literal Translation
Turn it back unto its scabbard, In the place where thou wast produced, In the land of thy birth I do judge thee.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

21:28-32 The diviners of the Ammonites made false prophecies of victory. They would never recover their power, but in time would be wholly forgotten. Let us be thankful to be employed as instruments of mercy; let us use our understandings in doing good; and let us stand aloof from men who are only skilful to destroy.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

30. Shall I cause it to return into his sheath—namely, without first destroying Ammon. Certainly not (Jer 47:6, 7). Others, as the Margin, less suitably read it imperatively, "Cause it to return," that is, after it has done the work appointed to it.

in the land of thy nativity—Ammon was not to be carried away captive as Judah, but to perish in his own land.