““For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.”
— WEB
Ezekiel 21:13
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.”
— KJV
“For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.”
— ASV
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Commentary
it is a trial--rather, "There is a trial" being made: the sword of the Lord will subject all to the ordeal. "What, then, if it contemn even the rod" (scepter of Judah)? Compare as to a similar scourge of unsparing trial, Job 9:23. it shall be no more--the scepter, that is, the state, must necessarily then come to an end. Fulfilled in part at the overthrow of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar, but fully at the time of "Shiloh's" (Messiah's) coming (Gen 49:10), when Judea became a Roman province.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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