Ezekiel 21:16
“(Ver. 23, 24 onwards) Again, I raised my hand against them in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the lands, because they had not performed my judgments, and had rejected my commandments, and had violated my Sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols (or thoughts) of their fat…”
Source: Septuagint
16And he made it ready for his hand to hold: the sword is sharpened, it is ready to put into the hand of the slayer.
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14Son of man, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,
15that thou mayest slay victims; be sharpened that thou mayest be bright, ready for slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree.
— Ezekiel 21:16 —
17Cry out and howl, son of man: for this sword is come upon my people, this sword is come upon all the princes of Israel: they shall be as strangers: judgment with the sword is come upon my people: therefore clap thy hands, for sentence has been passed:
18and what if even the tribe be rejected? it shall not be, saith the Lord God.