Ezekiel 7

The Day of the Wrath of the Lord

7The word of the Lord came to me: ²“And you, ^aO son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ^bAn end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.^{1 3}Now ^bthe end is upon you, and ^cI will send my anger upon you; ^dI will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ^4eAnd my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but ^fI will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. ^gThen you will know that I am the Lord.

⁵“Thus says the Lord God: Disaster ^hafter disaster!² Behold, it comes. ^6bAn end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. ⁷ⁱYour doom³ has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. ^jThe time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not ^kof joyful shouting on the mountains. ⁸Now I will soon ^lpour out my wrath upon you, and ^mspend my anger against you, ^dand judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ^9eAnd my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. ⁿThen you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

^10o“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! ^pYour doom has come; ^qthe rod has blossomed; pride has budded. ^11rViolence has grown up into ^qa rod of wickedness. ^sNone of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.^{4 12j}The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not ^tthe buyer rejoice, nor ^tthe seller mourn, ^ufor wrath is upon all their multitude.^{5 13}For ^vthe seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. ^wFor the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.⁶

¹⁴“They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, ^xfor my wrath is upon all their multitude. ^15yThe sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. ^zHe who is in the field dies by the sword, ^zand him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. ^16aAnd if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^bdoves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. ^17cAll hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. ^18dThey put on sackcloth, and ^ehorror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and ^fbaldness on all their heads. ¹⁹They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. ^gTheir silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. ^hFor it was ⁱthe stumbling block of their iniquity. ^20jHis beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^kthey made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^lI make it an unclean thing to them. ²¹And I will give it into the hands of ^mforeigners for prey, ⁿand to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and ^lthey shall profane it. ²²I will turn my face from them, and ^lthey shall profane my treasured⁷ place. Robbers shall enter ^land profane it.

^23o“Forge a chain!^{8 p}For the land is full of bloody crimes ^qand the city is full of violence. ²⁴I will bring ^rthe worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. ^sI will put an end to the pride of the strong, ^tand their holy places⁹ shall be profaned. ^25uWhen anguish comes, ^vthey will seek peace, but there shall be none. ^26wDisaster comes upon disaster; ^xrumor follows rumor. ^yThey seek a vision from the prophet, while ^zthe law¹⁰ perishes from the priest and ^acounsel from the elders. ²⁷The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way ^bI will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, ^cand they shall know that I am the Lord.”