“And He has given it to be polished, to be taken by the hand. This sword is sharpened and polished, to be given into the hand of the slayer.
And Mordeḵ
Therefore I said, “Look away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me because of the ravaging of the daughter of my people.”
“And in that day the slain of יהוה shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried, for they are dung on the face of the ground.
see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares יהוה, ‘and Neḇ
‘It is sharpened to make a slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning!’ Or shall we rejoice? My son, you have despised the rod, every stick!
“Cry and wail, son of man, for it shall be on My people, on all the leaders of Yisra’ĕ
“And you, son of man, appoint for yourself two ways for the sword of the sovereign of Baḇ