the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Ezekiel 21:16
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Slash to the right;turn to the left—wherever your blade is directed.
Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.
Cut sharply to the right; set yourself to the left, wherever your face is directed.
"Prove yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.
Sword, cut on the right side; then cut on the left side. Cut anywhere your blade is turned.
"Turn O sword and cut right or cut left, whichever way your thirst for blood and your edge direct you.
Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.
Get thee alone: goe to the right hande, or get thy selfe to the left hande, whithersoeuer thy face turneth.
"Show yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is appointed.
Show yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is appointed.
Slash to the right; set your blade to the left-wherever your blade is directed.
It will slash right and left, wherever the blade is pointed.
The sword was given to be polished, so that it could be wielded; it was sharpened and polished to be placed in the slaughterer's hand.'
Gather up [strength], go to the right hand, turn thee, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is appointed.
Sword, be sharp! Cut on the right side. Cut straight ahead. Cut on the left side. Go wherever your edge was chosen to go.
Take hold firmly my right hand, take hold firmly my left hand, wherever my face is turned;
Cut to the right and the left, you sharp sword! Cut wherever you turn.
Gather together, strike to the right; cause to go to the left, where your edge is directed.
Sharpen yourself on the right! Set yourself on the left, wherever your face is appointed.
Get the to some place alone, ether vpon the right honde or on the lefte, whither so euer thy face turneth.
Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.
And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled; the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
Goe thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoeuer thy face is set.
Get thee one way or other, either vpon the right hande or vpon the left, whyther soeuer thy face turneth.
And do thou go on, sharpen thyself on the right and on the left whithersoever thy face may set itself.
Gather thee together, go to the right; set thyself in array, go to the left; whithersoever thy face is set.
Be thou maad scharp, go thou to the riyt side, ether to the left side, whidur euer the desir of thi face is.
Gather yourself together, go to the right, set yourself in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.
Go thee one way or other, [either] on the right hand, [or] on the left, whithersoever thy face [is] set.
Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.
"Swords at the ready! Thrust right! Set your blade! Thrust left-- Wherever your edge is ordered!
O sword, slash to the right, then slash to the left, wherever you will, wherever you want.
O sharp sword, cut to the left and to the right. Cut wherever you have been sent.
Attack to the right! Engage to the left! —wherever your edge is directed.
One firm stroke to the right. Turn to the left,- Whithersoever thine edge is directed,
Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the left, which way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face.
Cut sharply to right and left where your edge is directed.
Take possession of the right, place thyself at the left, Whither thy face is appointed.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Go: Ezekiel 21:4, Ezekiel 21:20, Ezekiel 14:17, Ezekiel 16:46
either: Genesis 13:9
or on the left: Heb. set thyself, take the left hand
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 49:21 - earth
Cross-References
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Go thee one way or another,.... Go to some one place: or "unite thyself" a; to other swords, or join other soldiers holding swords; the address is to the sword, to steer its course some one way, and slay as it goes along, sparing none:
either on the right, or on the left; or south, or north; so the Targum,
"unsheathe, and slay on the south, and destroy on the north:''
whithersoever thy face is set; or prepared, as the Targum, or appointed for destruction; this is the usual interpretation: but why may not the words be an apostrophe to the prophet, to go alone or single, either to the right or left, south or north, as his face was set, Ezekiel 21:2, sighing and crying, smiting his hands together, in order to affect the minds of the people with the sense of their calamities coming upon them?
a ×ת×××× "unito Montanus", Piscator, Polanus; "unitor te", Starckius; "in unum dirigitor", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The passage may be called the âLay of the Sword;â it is written in the form of Hebrew poetry, with its characteristic parallelism.
Ezekiel 21:10
It contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree - The rod is the scepter of dominion, assigned to Judah Genesis 49:10. The destroying sword of Babylon despises the scepter of Judah; it despises every tree. Others render the verse, âShall we make mirthâ (saying), âthe rod of my son,â (the rod which corrects my people) âcontemnethâ (treats with scorn, utterly confounds) âevery treeâ (every other nation); or, the scepter of my people âcontemnethâ (proudly despises) every other nation. Proud as the people are, they shall be brought to sorrow.
Ezekiel 21:12
Terrors - Better as in the margin.
Smite upon thy thigh - A token of mourning (compare the marginal reference note).
Ezekiel 21:13
Or,
For it is put to the proof, and if it contemneth even the rod, What shall not be? saith the Lord
i. e., What horrors will not arise when the sword shall cut down without regard the ruling scepter of Judah!
Ezekiel 21:14
Doubled the third time - i. e., âthrice doubledâ to express its violence and force.
The sword of the slain - The sword whereby men are to be slain.
Of the great men ... - Or, The sword of the mighty slain, which presseth hard upon them.
Ezekiel 21:15
The point of the sword - The threatening sword or terror; as in Genesis 3:24, âthe flaming sword.â
And their ruins be multiplied - literally, âto the multiplication of stumblingblocks,â that is, so that the causes of their fall may be more numerous. Compare Jeremiah 46:16.
Made bright ... - Or,
Ah! It is prepared for a lightning-flash, Drawn for slaughter.
Ezekiel 21:16
The prophet addresses the sword,
Gather thyself up, O sword, to the right or to the left.
Another rendering is: âTurn thee backwards! get thee to the right! Set thee forwards (?)!get thee to the left! O whither is thy face appointed?
Ezekiel 21:17
The Lord smites together His hands in anger (marginal reference), man in consternation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 21:16. Go thee one way or other — Thou shalt prosper, O sword, whithersoever thou turnest; against Ammon, or Judea, or Egypt.
