Ezekiel 21:30
Good News Translation
"'Put up the sword! I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land where you were born.

New Revised Standard Version
Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

Contemporary English Version
Your days to punish others are over, so put your swords away. You will be punished in the land of your birth.

New American Bible
Return to your scabbard! In the place you were created, In the land of your origin, I will judge you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

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Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Shall I cause it to return.

Ezekiel 21:4,5 And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the north. . . .

Jeremiah 47:6,7 O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. . . .

I will

Ezekiel 16:38 And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

Ezekiel 28:13,15 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created. . . .

Genesis 15:14 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

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Ezekiel 16:3,4 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite. . . .

Context
The LORD's Sword of Judgment
29Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are wounded, whose appointed day is come in the time of iniquity. 30Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.31And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy destruction.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:6
O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

Jeremiah 47:7
How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon, and against the countries thereof by the sea side, and there hath made an appointment for it?

Ezekiel 21:5
That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.

Ezekiel 25:5
And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:29
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