¹⁰“ ‘The day for me to punish you is here! It has come! Death has arrived. The time is ripe for you to be judged. Your pride has grown so much that you will be destroyed. ¹¹Your mean and harmful acts have become like a rod. I will use it to punish you for your sins. None of you will be left. No wealth or anything of value will remain.

¹²“ ‘The time has come! The day has arrived! I will soon pour out my burning anger on the whole crowd of you. Do not let the buyer be happy. Do not let the seller be sad. ¹³The seller will not get back the land that was sold as long as both of them are alive.

“ ‘Ezekiel, the vision I gave you about that whole crowd will come true. They have committed many sins. So none of them will remain alive. ¹⁴They might blow trumpets. They might get everything ready. But no one will go into battle. I will soon pour out my burning anger on the whole crowd.

¹⁵“ ‘There is trouble everywhere. War is outside the city. Plague and hunger are inside it. Those who are out in the country will die in battle. Those in the city will be destroyed by hunger and plague. ¹⁶All those who escape and are left alive will run to the mountains. They have committed many sins. So they will cry like sad doves in the valleys.

¹⁷“ ‘Their hands will be powerless to help them. Their knees will become as weak as water. ¹⁸They will put on black clothes. They will put on terror as if it were their clothes. Their faces will be covered with shame. Their heads will be shaved.

¹⁹“ ‘They will throw their silver into the streets. Their gold will be like an “unclean” thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day I pour out my anger on them. They will not be able to satisfy their hunger. Their stomachs will not be full. Their silver and gold have tripped them up. They have made them fall into sin. ²⁰My people were so proud of their beautiful jewelry. They used it to make statues of their evil gods. I hate those gods. So I will turn their statues into an “unclean” thing for them.

²¹“ ‘I will hand everything over to strangers. I will turn it over to sinful people in other countries. They will pollute it. ²²I will turn my face away from my people. Their enemies will pollute my beautiful temple. Robbers will enter it and pollute it.

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