“Son of man, prophesy, ‘This is what the Lord says!’ You are to proclaim,

‘A sword!(A) A sword is sharpened
and also polished.(B)
10 It is sharpened for slaughter,
polished to flash like lightning!
Should we rejoice?
The scepter of my son,
the sword despises every tree.[a]
11 The sword is given to be polished,
to be grasped in the hand.
It is sharpened, and it is polished,
to be put in the hand of the slayer.’(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 21:10 Hb obscure

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