Ezekiel7

¹Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²“And you, son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.

³Now the end is upon you, for I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.

⁴And My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the Lord!’

⁵“This is what the Lord God says: ‘A disaster, a unique disaster, behold, it is coming!

⁶An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!

⁷Your doom has come to you, you inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near—panic rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

⁸Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and expend My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations.

⁹My eye will have no pity nor will I spare you. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the Lord, am striking.

¹⁰‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

¹¹Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them.

¹²The time has come, the day has arrived. Let neither the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.

¹³Indeed, the seller will not regain what he sold as long as they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not be averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his wrongdoing.

¹⁴‘They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their multitude.

¹⁵The sword is outside the city and the plague and the famine are within. Anyone who is in the field will die by the sword, while famine and the plague will consume those in the city.

¹⁶Even when their survivors escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each over his own wrongdoing.

¹⁷All hands will hang limp, and all knees will drip with water.

¹⁸They will put on sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces, and a bald patch on all their heads.

¹⁹They will fling their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite, nor can they fill their stomachs, because their wrongdoing has become a cause of stumbling.

²⁰Moreover, they transformed the splendor of His jewels into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

²¹And I will hand it over to the foreigners as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth as spoils; and they will profane it.

²²I will also turn My face away from them, and they will profane My treasure; then robbers will enter and profane it.

²³‘Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

²⁴Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses. I will also put an end to the pride of the strong ones, and their holy places will be profaned.

²⁵When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

²⁶Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the Law will be lost from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

²⁷The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed in horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them because of their conduct, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the Lord.’”