CHAPTER 7
1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 2“And you, man, thus said the Master, the LORD, concerning the country of Israel:
upon the four corners of the earth.
3Now the end is upon you,
and I have let loose My wrath against you
and exacted judgment of you by your ways
and laid upon you all your abominations.
4And My eye shall not spare you
nor will I show pity,
for your ways will I lay upon you,
and your abominations shall be in your midst,
and you shall know that I am the LORD.
5Thus said the Master, the LORD:
6One evil, an evil about to come,
the end has come, is roused against you, yes, it comes!
7The gyre has come round against you,
O dweller in the land.
The time has come, the day is near,
an uproar, no cheers in the mountains.
8Now soon I will pour out My anger against you,
and bring My wrath to an end against you,
And judge you by your ways
and lay upon you all your abominations.
9And My eye shall not spare,
nor will I show pity,
by your ways I will lay upon you
and your abominations shall be in your midst,
and you shall know that I am the LORD.
10Here is the day, here it comes,
the gyre has turned around,
the staff blooms, arrogance flowers.
11Outrage rises as a staff of wickedness—
not of them nor of their crowd,
not of them, and no lament in them.
12The time has come, the day arrived.
Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn,
for there is wrath against all her crowd.
13For the seller to his sold goods shall not come back,
for the vision against all her around shall not turn back,
each alive in his crime shall not hold fast.
14They have sounded the horn and readied all things,
but none goes to the battle,
for My wrath is against all her crowd.
15The sword is outside,
pestilence and famine within.
Who is out in the field by the sword shall die,
and he in the town, famine and pestilence consume him.
16And their refugees flee
and come to the mountains,
they all moan in their crime.
17All hands go slack,
18And they shall gird sackcloth,
and shudders cover them.
On every face is shame,
and all their heads are shaven.
19Their silver they fling into the streets,
and their gold becomes unclean.
Their silver and their gold cannot save them
on the day of the wrath of the LORD.
Their gullets shall not be sated
nor their innards shall they fill,
for a stumbling block their crime has become.
20And their lovely ornaments of which they were proud,
they made of them images of their loathsome abominations,
therefore will I make them unclean.
21And I will give them into the hand of strangers as booty
and to the wicked of the earth as spoils, and they shall defile her.
22And I will turn My face from them,
and they shall defile My treasure,
and brutes shall enter her and defile her.
23Forge a chain,
for the land is filled with blood-justice
and the city is filled with outrage.
24And I will bring the most evil of nations,
and they shall take hold of your homes;
and I will end the pride of the strong,
and their sanctuaries shall be defiled.
25Terror comes!
They shall seek peace and it shall not be.
26Disaster upon disaster shall come,
and rumor after rumor shall be.
And they shall seek vision from a prophet,
but teaching shall be gone from the priest
and counsel from the elders.
27The king shall mourn,
and the prince don desolation.
The hands of the people of the land shall panic.
By their way will I do with them,
and by their judgments will I exact judgment of them.
And they shall know that I am the LORD.