Ezekiel 7

Judgment on Israel is Near

7Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel:

^a‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

³Now the end has come upon you,

And I will send My anger against you;

I will judge you ^baccording to your ways,

And I will repay you for all your abominations.

^4cMy eye will not spare you,

Nor will I have pity;

But I will repay your ways,

And your abominations will be in your midst;

^dThen you shall know that I am the Lord!’

⁵“Thus says the Lord God:

‘A disaster, a singular ^edisaster;

Behold, it has come!

⁶An end has come,

The end has come;

It has dawned for you;

Behold, it has come!

^7fDoom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;

^gThe time has come,

A day of trouble is near,

And not of rejoicing in the mountains.

⁸Now upon you I will soon ^hpour out My fury,

And spend My anger upon you;

I will judge you according to your ways,

And I will repay you for all your abominations.

⁹‘My eye will not spare,

Nor will I have pity;

I will ¹repay you according to your ways,

And your abominations will be in your midst.

Then you shall know that I am the Lord who strikes.

¹⁰‘Behold, the day!

Behold, it has come!

ⁱDoom has gone out;

The rod has blossomed,

Pride has budded.

^11jViolence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;

None of them shall remain,

None of their multitude,

None of ²them;

^kNor shall there be wailing for them.

¹²The time has come,

The day draws near.

‘Let not the buyer ^lrejoice,

Nor the seller ^mmourn,

For wrath is on their whole multitude.

¹³For the seller shall not return to what has been sold,

Though he may still be alive;

For the vision concerns the whole multitude,

And it shall not turn back;

No one will strengthen himself

Who lives in iniquity.

¹⁴‘They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready,

But no one goes to battle;

For My wrath is on all their multitude.

¹⁵ⁿThe sword is outside,

And the pestilence and famine within.

Whoever is in the field

Will die by the sword;

And whoever is in the city,

Famine and pestilence will devour him.

¹⁶‘Those who ^osurvive will escape and be on the mountains

Like doves of the valleys,

All of them mourning,

Each for his iniquity.

¹⁷Every ^phand will be feeble,

And every knee will be as weak as water.

¹⁸They will also ^qbe girded with sackcloth;

Horror will cover them;

Shame will be on every face,

Baldness on all their heads.

¹⁹‘They will throw their silver into the streets,

And their gold will be like refuse;

Their ^rsilver and their gold will not be able to deliver them

In the day of the wrath of the Lord;

They will not satisfy their souls,

Nor fill their stomachs,

Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

²⁰‘As for the beauty of his ornaments,

He set it in majesty;

^sBut they made from it

The images of their abominations—

Their detestable things;

Therefore I have made it

Like refuse to them.

²¹I will give it as ^tplunder

Into the hands of strangers,

And to the wicked of the earth as spoil;

And they shall defile it.

²²I will turn My face from them,

And they will defile My secret place;

For robbers shall enter it and defile it.

²³‘Make a chain,

For ^uthe land is filled with crimes of blood,

And the city is full of violence.

²⁴Therefore I will bring the ^vworst of the Gentiles,

And they will possess their houses;

I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,

And their holy places shall be ^wdefiled.

²⁵³Destruction comes;

They will seek peace, but there shall be none.

^26xDisaster will come upon disaster,

And rumor will be upon rumor.

^yThen they will seek a vision from a prophet;

But the law will perish from the priest,

And counsel from the elders.

²⁷‘The king will mourn,

The prince will be clothed with desolation,

And the hands of the common people will tremble.

I will do to them according to their way,

And according to what they deserve I will judge them;

Then they shall know that I am the Lord!’ ”