If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

In that day Jehovah with His great and fierce and strong sword shall punish Leviathan, the fleeing serpent; Leviathan, that twisted serpent; and He shall kill the dragon in the sea.

For My sword is drenched in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of My curse, for judgment.

The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

For by fire and by His sword Jehovah will judge all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.

Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says Jehovah! Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished!

And He has given it to be polished, that it may be handled; this sword is sharpened, and it is polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.

because it is a testing. And what if the sword despises even the scepter? It shall be no more, declares the Lord Jehovah.

I have set the slaughter of the sword against all their gates, That the heart may melt and many may stumble. Ah! It is made bright; it is grasped for the slaughter:

You also, O Ethiopians, shall be slain by My sword.

Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time; for the day of their calamity is near, and the things prepared have made haste upon them.

Therefore says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah! I will be eased of My adversaries, and avenge Myself of My enemies.

According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay; fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies. He will completely repay their deeds to the coastlands.

A roaring sound from the city, a sound from the temple, the sound of Jehovah repaying His enemies.

As it is written in the Prophets: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.

you shall not bow down to them nor serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous Mighty God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

you shall not bow down to them nor serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous Mighty God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

defamers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can be.

traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,