Ezekiel 21:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

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

וָאֹמַ֕ר אֲהָ֖הּ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הֵ֚מָּה אֹמְרִ֣ים לִ֔י הֲלֹ֛א מְמַשֵּׁ֥ל מְשָׁלִ֖ים הֽוּא׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

Due to the transgressions you possess, akin to a sword drawn from the sheath, I will bring the same fate upon the Chaldeans and those who reside between you and them. I will demonstrate to all that I exercise authority over everything and have righteously allowed them to face this adversity.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Ezek 21:30Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Nah 1:9What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.
Jer 23:20The 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.
1 Sam 3:12In 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.
Ezek 20:48And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be quenched.
Isa 45:23I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return:
Deut 29:24And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?
Deut 29:28And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.