American Standard Version
"For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah. "
— Ezekiel 21:13, American Standard Version
“Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God.”
“For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.”
““‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
“Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.”
“Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God.”
it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.
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.
Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh.
For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.
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.
Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.