¹⁰^jIt is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; ^kit is furbished that it may ⁱ^lglitter: should ^mwe then make mirth? ^||it contemneth ⁿthe rod of ⁿ^omy son, as every tree.

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Footnotes

jver. 10, 11.
kver. 28. So ver. 10, 11.
iSee Deut. 32:41.
lver. 15 (Heb.), 28. See Nahum 3:3.
mSee Isai. 6:8.
||Or, it is the rod of my son, it despiseth every tree.
n Gen. 49:10. Nu. 24:17 in the Heb.
n Gen. 49:10. Nu. 24:17 in the Heb.
oComp. Ps. 89:26, 27.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

sharpened for slaughter,

polished to flash like lightning!

(Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)

NIVNew International Version (2011)

sharpened for the slaughter,

polished to flash like lightning!

“ ‘Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son? The sword despises every such stick.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It is sharpened for slaughter,

polished to flash like lightning!

Should we rejoice?

The scepter of my son,

the sword despises every tree.

NLTNew Living Translation

It is sharpened for terrible slaughter

and polished to flash like lightning!

Now will you laugh?

Those far stronger than you have fallen beneath its power!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

It is sharpened to slaughter a slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Or will we rejoice? A rod, my son, is despising every tree.