New Revised Standard Version
For consider: What! If you despise the rod, will it not happen? says the Lord GOD.

Contemporary English Version
I am testing my people, and they can do nothing to stop me. I, the LORD, have spoken.

New American Bible
for it is tested, and why not? Since you rejected my staff, should it not happen?— oracle of the Lord GOD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Because, etc.

a trial

Job 9:23 If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

2 Corinthians 8:2 That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity.

contemn

Ezekiel 21:10,25 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down every tree. . . .

it shall

Ezekiel 21:27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but this was not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth, and I will give it him.