ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE END

7 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel:

An end! The end has come

on the four corners of the earth.w

3 The end is now upon you;

I will send my anger against you

and judge you according to your ways.

I will punish you for all your detestable practices.

4 I will not look on you with pity or spare you,a

but I will punish you for your waysb

and for your detestable practices within you.

Then you will know that I am the Lord.”c

5 This is what the Lord God says:

Look, one disaster after another is coming!d

6 An end has come; the end has come!

It has awakened against you.

Look, it is coming!

7 Doom* has come on you,e

inhabitants of the land.

The time has come; the day is near.

There will be panic on the mountains

and not celebration.f

8 I will pour out my wrath on you very soon;g

I will exhaust my anger against you

and judge you according to your ways.

I will punish you for all your detestable practices.

9 I will not look on you with pity or spare you.

I will punish you for your ways

and for your detestable practices within you.

Then you will know

that it is I, the Lord, who strikes.

10 Here is the day! Here it comes!

Doom is on its way.h

The rod has blossomed;i

arrogance has bloomed.j

11 Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness.k

None of them will remain:

none of that crowd,

none of their wealth,

and none of the eminentB among them.

12 The time has come; the day has arrived.

Let the buyer not rejoicel

and the seller not mourn,

for wrath is on her whole crowd.m

13 The seller will certainly not return

to what was sold

as long as he and the buyer remain alive.C

For the vision concerning her whole crowd

will not be revoked,

and because of the iniquity of each one,

none will preserve his life.