Ezekiel 21:5
Good News Translation
Everyone will know that I, the LORD, have drawn my sword and that I will not put it away.

New Revised Standard Version
and all flesh shall know that I the LORD have drawn my sword out of its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.

Contemporary English Version
knowing that my sword will never be put away.

New American Bible
and all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, have drawn my sword from its scabbard. It cannot return again.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.

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Ezekiel 20:48 And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be quenched.

Numbers 14:21-23 As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:24-28 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath? . . .

1 Kings 9:7-9 I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people. . . .

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Ezekiel 21:30 Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

1 Samuel 3:12 In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end.

Isaiah 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return:

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Jeremiah 23:20 The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.

Nahum 1:9 What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.

Context
The LORD's Sword of Judgment
4And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the north. 5That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.6And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:40
I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

1 Samuel 3:12
In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end.

Jeremiah 23:20
The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.

Jeremiah 25:27
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you.

Ezekiel 21:6
And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.

Ezekiel 21:30
Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Nahum 1:9
What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.

Ezekiel 21:4
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