Ezekiel 21:10-12

New Living Translation

¹⁰ It is sharpened for terrible slaughter
    and polished to flash like lightning!
Now will you laugh?
    Those far stronger than you have fallen beneath its power!^[a]
11 Yes, the sword is now being sharpened and polished;
    it is being prepared for the executioner.

¹² “Son of man, cry out and wail;
    pound your thighs in anguish,
for that sword will slaughter my people and their leaders—
    everyone will die!