Discovery BoxEzekiel 7:12 
Context7:12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath 1 comes against their whole crowd.
Ezekiel 18:31
Context18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! 2 Why should you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 21:10
Context21:10 It is sharpened for slaughter,
it is polished to flash like lightning!
“‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree! 3
1 tn Heb “wrath.” Context clarifies that God’s wrath is in view.
2 sn In Ezek 11:19, 36:26 the new heart and new spirit are promised as future blessings.
3 tn Heb “Or shall we rejoice, scepter of my son, it despises every tree.” The translation understands the subject of the verb “despises,” which is a feminine form in the Hebrew text, to be the sword (which is a feminine noun) mentioned just before this. Alternatively, the line may be understood as “let us not rejoice, O tribe of my son; it despises every tree.” The same word in Hebrew may be either “rod,” “scepter,” or “tribe.” The word sometimes translated as “or” or taken as an interrogative particle may be a negative particle. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:672, n. 79.
sn The people of Judah should not place false hope in their king, symbolized by his royal scepter, for God’s judgment (symbolized by fire and then a sword) would destroy every tree (see 20:47), symbolizing the righteous and wicked (see 21:3-4).
