Ezekiel 21:9-11

New Living Translation

“A sword, a sword
    is being sharpened and polished.
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.