EZEKIEL 21:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.”
Should we rejoice, asks God, as the king's scepter (Judah's instrument of rule) despises even the rod (the sword)? The rhetorical question establishes that resistance to judgment or false confidence in the ruler's power proves futile. The scepter and rod represent human and divine instruments of rule, with the divine rod (sword) ultimately prevailing.
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