Yechezkel - Chapter 7

1. The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2. "As for you, son of man, so said the Lord God: 'To the soil of Israel, an end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

3. Now the end is upon you, and I shall send forth My wrath upon you and judge you according to your ways, and I shall repay you for all your abominations.

4. And My eye will not spare you, and I shall not have pity, for I shall place your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst, and you will know that I am the Lord.'

5. So said the Lord God: An evil, a singular evil, behold, it comes.

6. An end has come; the end has come, it has awakened against you; behold, it comes.

7. The dawn has set against you, O dweller of the land; the time has come; the day is near, confusion and not the shout of the mountains.

8. Now, speedily I shall pour out My fury upon you, and I shall spend My wrath in you, and I shall judge you according to your ways, and I shall place upon you all your abominations.

9. And My eye will not spare, and I shall not pity. According to your ways I shall place upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will know that I, the Lord, am smiting.

10. Behold the day; behold, it is coming; the dawn has gone forth; the staff has budded, the willful wickedness has blossomed.

11. The violence has arisen as a staff of wickedness, [none will remain,] neither from them nor from their multitude, nor from their children, and no one among them longs [for Me].

12. The time has come; the day has arrived. The purchaser will not rejoice, neither will the seller mourn, for there will be wrath upon all her multitude.

13. For the seller will not return to that which was sold as long as they are alive, for when the prophecy was [directed] to all her multitude, they did not repent, and each man's soul is in his iniquity; they do not strengthen themselves.

14. They sound the shofar and they prepare everyone, but no one goes forth to war, because My wrath is upon all her multitude.

15. The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine are inside; whoever is in the field will die by the sword, and whoever is in the city-famine and pestilence will consume him.

16. And their survivors will escape, and they will be upon the mountains; like the doves of the valleys, they all moan, each one for his iniquity.

17. All hands will weaken, and all knees will go [like] water.

18. And they will gird themselves with sackcloth, and terror will cover them, with shame on every face and baldness on all their heads.

19. They will cast their silver into the streets, and their gold will be repugnant; their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the Lord's wrath; they will not sate their souls, neither will they fill their bowels, for the obstacle was because of their iniquity.

20. And the beauty of His adornment is what he made for [their] pride, but they made there the despicable images of their abominations; therefore I made it repugnant to them.

21. And I shall give it into the hands of strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for plunder, and they will profane it.

22. And I shall turn My face away from them, and they will profane My secret place, and wild men will enter it and profane it.

23. Make the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

24. And I shall bring the most wicked of the nations, and they shall inherit their houses, and I shall abolish the pride of the brazen, and they will deliver their meeting places as an inheritance.

25. A cutting-off comes, and they will seek peace, but it will not be there.

26. Happening upon happening will come, and news shall be upon news, and they will seek prophecy from a prophet, and instruction will be lost from a priest, and counsel from the elders.

27. The king will mourn, and the prince will be attired with appallment, and the hands of the people of the land will be frightened; of their way I shall act with them, and with their judgments I shall judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.