Ezekiel 21:15
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Cross-reference
In Ezekiel 21:7, hearts melt at the coming news — here the sword causes hearts to melt. Both describe the same reaction of fear.
Ezekiel 21:9-11 describes the sword being sharpened and polished — here it is stationed at the gates. These verses show progression from preparation to deployment.
In Ezekiel 21:10, the sword is sharpened for slaughter and flashes like lightning — here it is stationed for slaughter, made like lightning. Both describe the same sword's preparation.
In Ezekiel 21:22, the Babylonian king comes to Jerusalem's gates, fulfilling the sword stationed there in verse 15 — the instrument of judgment is identified.
Ezekiel 21:28 applies the same sword imagery to the Ammonites — here it's against Jerusalem. The same divine weapon judges both.
In Leviticus 26:36, faintness of heart is a covenant curse — here the sword at the gates brings that terror on Jerusalem.
In Lamentations 5:17, the heart grows sick from affliction — echoing the faintness of heart caused by the sword here.