Ezekiel 21:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹Prophesy, son of man, and say: Thus says the Lord:

A sword, a sword has been sharpened;
    it has also been burnished.
¹⁰It is sharpened for slaughter,
    burnished to flash like lightning.
¹¹The sword has been polished to be wielded
    and to be placed in the slayer’s hand.