Ezekiel 7

¹ The word of the LORD came to me:

² “And you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end has come! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

³ Now the end is upon you, and I will unleash my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.

⁴ I will show you no pity and spare you nothing. 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: ‘Disaster! A unique disaster! Look, it is coming.

⁶ The end has come. The end has come; it has awakened against you. Look, it is coming.

⁷ Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near: tumult, not shouts of joy on the mountains.

⁸ Now, very soon, I will pour out my fury on you and finish my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.

⁹ I will show no pity and spare nothing. I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD who strikes.

¹⁰ Look, the day! Look, it is coming. Doom has emerged; the rod has blossomed, arrogance has sprouted.

¹¹ Violence has risen as a rod of wickedness. Nothing remains of them, nothing of their multitude, nothing of their tumult; there is no lament for them.

¹² The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, because burning anger is upon all her multitude.

¹³ For the seller will not return to what he sold, even if he is still alive. The vision against all her multitude will not be reversed, and no one will preserve his life because of his guilt.

¹⁴ They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, because my burning anger is upon all her multitude.’”

¹⁵ “‘The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside. Whoever is in the open country will die by the sword, and whoever is in the city will be consumed by famine and pestilence.

¹⁶ Those who escape will flee to the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them groaning, each because of his own guilt.

¹⁷ All hands will grow weak, and every knee will run with water.

¹⁸ They will put on sackcloth, and trembling will cover them. Shame will be on every face, and every head will be shaved.

¹⁹ They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will become defiled. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the LORD’s fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, because these became the stumbling block of their guilt.

²⁰ They took pride in the beauty of their ornaments, and with them they made the images of their abominations and detestable idols. So I will make those things defiled to them.

²¹ I will hand them over to foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane them.

²² I will turn my face away from them, and they will profane my hidden place. Robbers will enter it and profane it.

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

²⁴ I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be profaned.

²⁵ Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but there will be none.

²⁶ Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will seek a vision from the prophet, but instruction will be lost to the priest and counsel to the elders.

²⁷ The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed in despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble with fear. I will deal with them according to their ways and judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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