Ezekiel 21:15

Context

21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.

At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.

Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

Ezekiel 21:22

Context
21:22 Into his right hand¹ comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal² for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry,³ to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

[21:22] ¹tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.

[21:22] ²tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.

[21:22] ³tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”