Ezekiel 21:9-11

LEB(i) 9 "Son of man,* prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord,' say, 'A sword, a sword is sharpened and is also polished. 10 It is sharpened to slaughter a slaughter, polished to flash like lightning!* Or will we rejoice?* A rod, my son, is despising every tree.* 11 And he gives it to be polished, to be seized by the hand.* It is sharpened—a sword—and it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer.