Ezekiel 7

1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, “And you, son of man, Thus said Lord YHWH to the ground of Israel:

And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

2 An end, the end has come on the four corners of the land.

“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

3 Now [is] the end for you, And I have sent My anger on you, And judged you according to your ways, And set all your abominations against you.

The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

4 And My eye has no pity on you, nor do I spare, For I set your ways against you, And your abominations are in your midst, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

5 Thus said Lord YHWH: Calamity, a single calamity, behold, it has come.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster — behold, it is coming!

6 An end has come, the end has come, It has awoken for you, behold, it has come.

The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!

7 The circlet has come to you, O inhabitant of the land! The time has come, a day of trouble [is] near, And not the shouting of mountains.

Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.

8 Now shortly I pour out My fury on you, And have completed My anger against you, And judged you according to your ways, And set all your abominations against you.

Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

9 And My eye does not pity, nor do I spare, I give to you according to your ways, And your abominations are in your midst, And you have known that [it is] I, YHWH, striking.

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

10 Behold, the day, behold, it has come, The circlet has gone forth, The rod has blossomed, the pride has flourished.

Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

11 The violence has risen to a rod of wickedness, There is none of them, nor of their multitude, Nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for them.

Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

12 The time has come, the day has arrived, The buyer does not rejoice, And the seller does not become a mourner, For wrath [is] to all its multitude.

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

13 For the seller does not turn to the sold thing, And yet their life [is] among the living, For the vision [is] to all its multitude, It does not turn back, And none strengthens his life by his iniquity.

The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.

14 They have blown with a horn to prepare the whole, And none is going to battle, For My wrath [is] to all its multitude.

They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

15 The sword [is] outside, And the pestilence and the famine within, He who is in a field dies by sword, And he who is in a city—Famine and pestilence devour him.

The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

16 And their fugitives have escaped away, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them making a noise—each for his iniquity.

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

17 All the hands are feeble, and all knees go [as] waters.

Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

18 And they have girded on sackcloth, And trembling has covered them, And shame [is] on all faces, And baldness on all their heads.

They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

19 They cast their silver into out-places, And their gold becomes impurity. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of YHWH, They do not satisfy their soul, And they do not fill their bowels, For it has been the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

20 As for the beauty of his ornament, He set it for excellence, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things—they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,

His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

21 And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have defiled it.

And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

22 And I have turned My face from them, And they have defiled My hidden place, Indeed, destroyers have come into it, and defiled it.

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

23 Make the chain; for the land Has been full of bloody judgments, And the city has been full of violence.

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

24 And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused the excellence of the strong to cease, And those sanctifying them have been defiled.

So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

25 Destruction has come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.

Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

26 Disaster comes on disaster, and report is on report, And they have sought a vision from a prophet, And law perishes from [the] priest, And counsel from [the] elderly,

Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

27 The king becomes a mourner, And a prince puts on desolation, And the hands of the people of the land are troubled, I deal with them from their own way, And I judge them with their own judgments, And they have known that I [am] YHWH!”

The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”