Ezekiel Chapter 21 verse 17 Holy Bible
I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
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And I will put my hands together with a loud sound, and I will let my wrath have rest: I the Lord have said it.
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And I myself will smite my hands together, and I will satisfy my fury: I Jehovah have spoken [it].
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I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
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I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
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And I also, I smite My hand on my hand, And have caused My fury to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 17-19. - The new section opens in a different strain. Ezekiel sees, as in vision, Nebuchadnezzar and his army on their march. He is told to appoint (better, make, or mark, as on a brick or tile, as in Ezekiel 4:1) a place where the road bifurcated. Both come from one land, i.e. from Babylon; but from that point onwards one road led to Rabbath, the capital of the Ammonites (Deuteronomy 3:11; 2 Samuel 11:1), the other to Jerusalem. Apparently, the exiles and the people of Judah flattered themselves that the former was the object of the expedition. The answer to that false hope is a vivid picture of what was passing in the council of war which Nebuchadnezzar was holding at that parting of the ways. The prophet sees, as it were, the sign post pointing, as with a hand, to each of the two cities The king consults his soothsayers, and uses divinations. Of these Ezekiel enumerates three: (1) He shakes the arrows to and fro (Revised Version). This was known among the Greeks as the βέλομαντεια The arrows were put into a quiver, with names (in this case probably Rabbath and Jerusalem) written on them. One was then drawn, or thrown, out as by chance, and decided the direction of the campaign. (2) He consults the images (Hebrew, teraphim). The modus operandi in this case is not known, but Judges 18:18 and Hosea 3:4 point to some such use of them. (3) There remains the sacrifice and the inspection of the liver, familiar alike in Greek, Etrurian, and Roman divination (Cicero, 'De Divin.,' 6:13).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) My fury to rest.--As in Ezekiel 16:42, because it has accomplished its purpose and has nothing more to do. (Comp. Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 14:13.)At Ezekiel 21:18 the third and final prophecy of the chapter begins, and, besides being much more explicit than the others, includes also a new subject (Ezekiel 21:28-32), a prophecy against Ammon. Hitherto it has only been foretold that Judah shall be desolated, now it is added that this shall be effected by the king of Babylon, and that he shall also extend his conquests to the Ammonites. . . .
