Parallel Verses
Amplified
Turn O sword and cut right or cut left, whichever way your thirst for blood and your edge direct you.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Holman Bible
turn to the left—
wherever your blade is directed.
International Standard Version
Be sharp! Attack on the right, or parry to your left, wherever you point your sword.
A Conservative Version
Gather thee together. Go to the right. Set thyself in array. Go to the left, wherever thy face is set.
American Standard Version
Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Bible in Basic English
Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.
Darby Translation
Gather up strength, go to the right hand, turn thee, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is appointed.
Julia Smith Translation
Unite thyself to the right, set thyself to the left, where thy face wavers.
King James 2000
Go you one way or the other, either on the right hand, or on the left, wherever your face is set.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Gather together, strike to the right; cause [to] go to the left, where your {edge} [is] directed.
Modern King James verseion
Sharpen yourself on the right! Set yourself on the left, wherever your face is set.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Get thee to some place alone, either upon the righthand or on the left, whithersoever thy face turneth.
NET Bible
Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.
New Heart English Bible
'Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.'
The Emphasized Bible
One firm stroke to the right. Turn to the left,- Whithersoever thine edge is directed,
Webster
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
World English Bible
Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.
Youngs Literal Translation
Take possession of the right, place thyself at the left, Whither thy face is appointed.
Themes
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 21:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Vision Of The Avenging Sword Of Yahweh
15 so that hearts may melt, and many will fall at their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made [to flash] like lightning; it is pointed and sharpened for slaughter. 16 Turn O sword and cut right or cut left, whichever way your thirst for blood and your edge direct you. 17 I will also strike My hands together, and I will cause My wrath to rest. I the Lord have spoken.”
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 13:9
Is not the entire land before you? Please separate [yourself] from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left.”
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I were to bring a sword on that land and say, ‘Let a sword go through the land and cut off man and animal from it,’
Ezekiel 16:46
Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you.
Ezekiel 21:4
Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go from its sheath against all flesh from south to north,
Ezekiel 21:20
You shall point out a way for the [Babylonian] sword to come to Rabbah [the capital] of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem.