(A)“Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, say:

(B)“A sword, a sword is sharpened
    and also polished,
10 (C)sharpened for slaughter,
    (D)polished to flash like lightning!

(Or (E)shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, (F)with everything of wood.)[a] 11 So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished (G)to be given into the hand of the slayer.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:10 Probable reading; Hebrew The rod of my son despises everything of wood

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