13Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
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.
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-17)Here is another prophecy of the sword, which is delivered in a very affecting manner; the expressions here used are somewhat intricate, and perplex interpreters. The sword was unsheathed in the Ezek. 21:1-7; here it is fitted up to do execution, which the prophet is commanded to lament. Observe, I. How the sword is here described. 1. It is sharpened , that it may cut and wound, and make a sore sla…
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