Ezekiel 21:10

English Standard Version

10 sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! (Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)[1] (Eze 20:47; Eze 21:15; Eze 21:28; Jas 5:5) 

New International Version

10 sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! ‘ “Shall we rejoice in the sceptre of my royal son? The sword despises every such stick. 

New International Reader’s Version

10 It is sharpened to kill people. It flashes like lightning.’ ” ’ The people say, ‘Should we take delight in the sceptre of the LORD’s royal son? The sword looks down on every sceptre like this.’ 

King James Version

10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. 

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