15 So that hearts may melt with fear
    and the fallen be many,
I have stationed the sword for slaughter[a]
    at all their gates.
Look! It is forged to strike like lightning,
    it is grasped for slaughter.
16 Slash to the right, you sword,
    then to the left,
    wherever your blade is turned.
17 I too will strike my hands together,
    and my wrath will subside.
I the Lord have spoken.’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:15 Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.