Ezekiel 21:10-12

American Standard Version

¹⁰ it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? ^[a]the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree. ¹¹ And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. ¹² Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: ^[b]they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh.