Ezekiel 21:8-13

The Lord ’s Sword of Judgment

⁸Then the Lord said to me, ⁹“Son of man, give the people this message from the Lord: “A sword, a sword is being sharpened and polished.

¹⁰It 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!

¹¹Yes, the sword is now being sharpened and polished; it is being prepared for the executioner.

¹²“Son of man, cry out and wail; pound your thighs in anguish, for that sword will slaughter my people and their leaders— everyone will die!

¹³It will put them all to the test. What chance do they have? says the Sovereign Lord.