Ezekiel 21:10-12

International Standard Version

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.”
¹² ‘Cry and wail, you Son of Man!
    It’s headed against my people.
It’s also against all the princes of Israel,
    who have been tossed to the sword,
        along with my people.
So it’s time to grieve like you mean it,^[c]