Ezekiel 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 ▼▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
God to the land of Israel, ‘An bend! 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 cbring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will dknow that I am the Lord!’ 5“Thus says the Lord ▼▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
God, ‘A fdisaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming! 6‘An end is coming; the end has come! It has gawakened against you; behold, it has come! 7‘Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The htime has come, the iday is near— tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains. 8‘Now I will shortly jpour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; kjudge 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 ▼▼ Lit give
repay 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 mrod has budded, arrogance has blossomed. 11‘Violence ▼▼ Lit has risen
has grown into a rod of owickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their pwealth, nor anything eminent among them. 12‘The qtime has come, the day has arrived. Let not the rbuyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for swrath is against all their multitude. 13‘Indeed, the seller will not ▼▼ Lit return to
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uregain ▼▼ Lit thing sold, i.e. his inherited land
what he sold as long as ▼▼ Lit their life among the living ones
they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not ▼▼ Lit return
be averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity. 14‘They have yblown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all ▼▼ Lit her
their multitude. 15‘The aasword 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 abescape, they will be on the mountains like acdoves of the valleys, all of them ▼▼ Lit moaning
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aemourning, each over his own iniquity. 17‘All afhands will hang limp and all knees will ▼▼ Lit run with water
become like water. 18‘They will ahgird themselves with sackcloth and aishuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and ajbaldness on all their heads. 19‘They will akfling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their alsilver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their ▼▼ Lit soul
appetite 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 anthey 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 aoforeigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it. 22‘I will also turn My apface from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it. 23‘ aqMake the chain, for the land is full of ▼▼ Lit judgment of blood
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asbloody crimes and the city is atfull of violence. 24‘Therefore, I will bring the worst of the aunations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the avpride of the strong ones cease, and their awholy places will be profaned. 25‘When anguish comes, they will seek axpeace, but there will be none. 26‘ ayDisaster will come upon disaster and azrumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a bavision from a prophet, but the bblaw will be lost from the priest and bccounsel from the elders. 27‘The king will mourn, the prince will be bdclothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will ▼▼ Lit be terrified
tremble. 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.’”
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