Ezekiel 7

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

Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Also, you, son of man, say,

2 And thou, son of man, thus says the lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end. The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Thus says the Lord; An end is come to the land of Israel, the end is come on the four corners of the land.

3 Now the end is upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways. And I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.

The end is come on you,

4 And my eye shall not spare thee, nor will I have pity. But I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn near, not with tumult, nor with pangs.

5 Thus says the lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil, behold, it comes.

Now I will pour out my anger upon you near at hand, and I will accomplish my wrath on you: and I will judge you for your ways, and recompense upon you all your abominations.

6 An end has come. The end has come. It awakens against thee. Behold, it comes.

Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike [you].

7 Thy doom has come to thee, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come. The day is near, tumult, and not joyful shouting, upon the mountains.

Now the end [is come] to you, and I will send [judgment] upon you: and I will take vengeance on your ways, and will recompense all your abominations upon you.

8 Now I will shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish my anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways. And I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.

Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense your way upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

9 And my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. I will bring upon thee according to thy ways. And thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, do smite.

For thus says the Lord; Behold, the end is come.

10 Behold, the day, behold, it comes. Thy doom has gone forth. The rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

Behold, the day of the Lord! although the rod has blossomed,

11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. Neither shall there be eminency among them.

pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and [that] not with tumult, nor with haste.

12 The time has come; the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude of it.

The time is come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn.

13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive, for the vision is concerning the whole multitude of it. None shall return, nor shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

For the buyer shall never again return to the seller, neither shall a man cleave with the eye [of hope] to his life.

14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready, but none goes to the battle, for my wrath is upon all the multitude of it.

Sound you the trumpet, and pass sentence on all together.

15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine inside. He who is in the field shall die with the sword, and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

[There shall be] war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.

16 But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.

But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will kill all [the rest], every one for his iniquities.

17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.

18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them. And shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, [even] upon every face, and baldness upon every head.

19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah. They shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their bowels, because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled: for it was the punishment of their iniquities.

20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty, but they made the images of their abominations, and their detestable things in it. Therefore I have made it as an unclean thing to them.

[As for] their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.

21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil, and they shall profane it.

And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.

22 I will also turn my face from them, and they shall profane my secluded place. And robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.

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

And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.

24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be profaned.

And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.

25 Destruction comes. And they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

And [though] propitiation shall come, and [one] shall seek peace, yet there shall be none.

26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor. And they shall seek a vision of the prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

27 The king shall mourn, and the ruler shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and according to their deserts I will judge them. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.

The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble: I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgments will I punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.