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it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.
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No Time for Mirth
Commentators emphasize that the imagery of a sharpened, glittering sword signifies God's severe and imminent judgment. The rhetorical question, "shall we then make mirth?" is a sharp rebuke. When God's judgment is near, it is a time for sober reflection and lament, not celebration or indifference. This calls believers to take God's warnings about sin seriously.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The passage may be called the “Lay of the Sword”; it is written in the form of He…
19th Century
Anglican
Make mirth. — The answer to this question has already been given in Ezekiel 21:6, and is repeated in Ezekiel 21:12.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter To cut easily, and wound deeply, and make a slaughter of men, like beasts f…
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