Ezekiel 7

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

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

2 Also, you son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel; An end, the end is come on 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 is the end come on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense on you all your abominations.

The end is come on you,

4 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the middle of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD.

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 GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

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 is come, the end is come: it watches for you; behold, it is come.

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 The morning is come to you, O you that dwell in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of 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 will I shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish my anger on you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your 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, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the middle of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD that smites.

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

10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.

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

11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for 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 is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is on all the multitude thereof.

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 were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither 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, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is on all the multitude thereof.

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

15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that 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 they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for 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 on all faces, and baldness on 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 removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is 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 of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from 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 pollute 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 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile 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 a 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 Why I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

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 on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

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 prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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.