Ezekiel 21:13-15

New American Standard Bible

¹³ For there is a testing; and what if even the ^[a]rod which despises will cease to be?” declares the Lord God.

¹⁴ “You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands; and let the sword be ^(A)doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them, ¹⁵ so that their ^(B)hearts will waver, and many ^(C)fall at all their ^(D)gates. I have granted the slaughter of the sword. Oh! It is made for striking like lightning, it is sharpened in readiness for slaughter.