Ezekiel 21:9-11

International Standard Version

‘A sword!
    A sword is being sharpened.
        It’s also being polished.
¹⁰ It’s being sharpened for slaughter,
    and being polished to gleam like lightning.’
“We shouldn’t be rejoicing, should we,
    while my Son’s scepter, the sword,
        is despising^[a] every tree?^[b]
11 It’s intended to be polished
    so it can be grasped in the hand.
The sword is sharpened.
    It’s polished for placement
        into the hand of the executioner.”