Ezekiel 21:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

A sword, a sword is sharpened,
    it is also polished;
¹⁰ it is sharpened for slaughter,
    honed to flash like lightning!
How can we make merry?
    You have despised the rod,
    and all discipline.^[a]
11 The sword^[b] is given to be polished,
    to be grasped in the hand;
it is sharpened, the sword is polished,
    to be placed in the slayer’s hand.