Ezekiel 21:13

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

Because it is a trial - rather, 'For there is a trial' being made; the sword of the Lord will subject all to the ordeal.

And what if the sword contemn even the rod? - as he already foretold it would, in . 'What, then, if it contemn even the rod' (sceptre) of Judah? Compare as to a similar scourge of unsparing trial .

It shall be no more - the sceptre of Judah; i:e., the state must necessarily then come to an end. Fulfilled in part at the overthrow of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar, but fully at the time of "Shiloh's (Messiah's) coming (), when Judea became a Roman province.