Ezekiel 7

Chapter 7

Punishment for Wickedness Foretold

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

²“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord ¹God to the land of Israel, ‘An ^aend! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.

³‘Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.

⁴‘For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will ^abring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will ^bknow that I am the Lord!’

⁵“Thus says the Lord ¹God, ‘A ^adisaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!

⁶‘An end is coming; the end has come! It has ^aawakened against you; behold, it has come!

⁷‘Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The ^atime has come, the ^bday is near—tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

⁸‘Now I will shortly ^apour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; ^bjudge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations.

⁹‘My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will ¹repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the Lord, do the smiting.

¹⁰‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the ^arod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

¹¹‘Violence ¹has grown into a rod of ^awickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their ^bwealth, nor anything eminent among them.

¹²‘The ^atime has come, the day has arrived. Let not the ^bbuyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for ^cwrath is against all their multitude.

¹³‘Indeed, the seller will not ^1aregain ²what he sold as long as ³they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not ⁴be averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity.

¹⁴‘They have ^ablown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all ¹their multitude.

¹⁵‘The ^asword is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city.

¹⁶‘Even when their survivors ^aescape, they will be on the mountains like ^bdoves of the valleys, all of them ^1cmourning, each over his own iniquity.

¹⁷‘All ^ahands will hang limp and all knees will ¹become like water.

¹⁸‘They will ^agird themselves with sackcloth and ^bshuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and ^cbaldness on all their heads.

¹⁹‘They will ^afling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their ^bsilver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their ¹appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

The Temple Profaned

²⁰‘They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and ^athey made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

²¹‘I will give it into the hands of the ^aforeigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.

²²‘I will also turn My ^aface from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.

²³‘^aMake the chain, for the land is full of ^1bbloody crimes and the city is ^cfull of violence.

²⁴‘Therefore, I will bring the worst of the ^anations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the ^bpride of the strong ones cease, and their ^choly places will be profaned.

²⁵‘When anguish comes, they will seek ^apeace, but there will be none.

²⁶‘^aDisaster will come upon disaster and ^brumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a ^cvision from a prophet, but the ^dlaw will be lost from the priest and ^ecounsel from the elders.

²⁷‘The king will mourn, the prince will be ^aclothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will ¹tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”