Ezekiel 21:13-15

New King James Version

¹³ “Because it is ^(A)a testing,
And what if the sword despises even the scepter?
^(B)The scepter shall be no more,”

¹⁴ “You therefore, son of man, prophesy,
And ^(C)strike your hands together.
The third time let the sword do double damage.
It is the sword that slays,
The sword that slays the great men,
That enters their ^(D)private chambers.
¹⁵ I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,
That the heart may melt and many may stumble.
Ah! ^(E)It is made bright;
It is grasped for slaughter: