To make a sore slaughter; to slay many, and with as little regard as men kill beasts, or to offer whole herds of wicked men in sacrifice to the offended justice of God; much after this style both David, Psalms 44:22, and Isaiah 34:6. May glitter, and strike a terror into the enemy. Should we then make mirth? shall we allow ourselves in jollity, in feasts, or dances, or songs? This would be very uncomely. It contemneth; this great, sharp and glittering sword, appointed to cut off, slights and despiseth all the resistance that can be made against it, and reckons all former chastisements were but as the rod wherewith a son is corrected; but now the sword of an enemy is drawn out, and will cut off all. Or, Nebuchadnezzar despiseth your king, the royal family, and nobles, which are compared to gods, Ezekiel 19:10,11; and would use them as he would every common tree of the wood, as it appears he did, when he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in chains as a slave.
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Ezekiel 21:10
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemnethb the rod of my son, as every tree.