 1 The Word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 You, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end. The end has come on the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you and will judge you according to your ways, and will lay on you all your abominations. 4 My eye will not spare you nor will I have pity. But I will repay your ways on you and your abominations will be in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God: An evil: Behold, an only evil has come. 6 An end has come, the end has come. It awakes against you. Behold, it has come. 7 The encirclement has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come, the day of tumult is near, and not a shout of the mountains. 8 I will soon pour out my fury on you, and fulfill my anger on you. And I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations. 9 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations that are in your midst. And you shall know that I am the Lord who strikes. 10 Behold the day. Behold, it has come. The encirclement has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded. 11 Violence has risen up for a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their riches. Nor shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time has come. The day has arrived. Do not let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn. For wrath is on all her multitude. 13 For the seller shall not return to what is sold, although they are still alive. For the vision to all her multitude shall not return, and a man shall not hold his life strong in iniquity. 14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready. But none goes to the battle, for my wrath is on all her multitude. 15 The sword is outside, and the plague and the famine inside. He who is in the field shall die with the sword. And he in the city shall be devoured by famine and plague. 16 But if their fugitives shall escape, then they shall be like doves of the valleys on the mountains, all of them mourning, each one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall go weak as water. 18 They shall put on sackcloth and shame+ shall cover them. Shame will be on all faces and baldness on all heads. 19 They shall throw their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be an impure thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels. Because their iniquity has become a stumbling block for them. 20 The beauty of His ornament, He set it in majesty. But they made the images of their abominations and of their hateful things in it. Therefore I have put it to them as an impure thing. 21 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prize and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil and they will defile it. 22 I will also turn my presence+ away from them and they will defile my secret place and violent ones will enter into it and defile it. 23 Make a chain. For the land is full of bloody judgments and the city is full of violence. 24 I will bring the most evil of the nations and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease and their holy places will be defiled. 25 Ruin will come and they will seek peace, but none will be. 26 Disaster on disaster will come and rumor to rumor will be. They will seek a vision from the prophet, but the law will perish from the priest and wisdom from the elders. 27 The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them according to their way and I will judge them according to their judgments. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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