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What does Ezekiel 21:15 mean?

"I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter."

— Ezekiel 21:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

12

Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people. It is on all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Therefore beat your thigh.

13

“For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.

14

“You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together. Let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the fatally wounded. It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded, which enters into their rooms.

15

I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.

16

Gather yourselves together. Go to the right. Set yourselves in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set.

17

I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

18

Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,

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