EZEKIEL 7 [†]The word of the LORD came to me: 2[^][†]“And you,  a O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel:  b An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. [1] 3[†]Now  b the end is upon you, and  c I will send my anger upon you;  d I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 4 e And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but  f I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst.  g Then you will know that I am the LORD.

5“Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster  h after disaster! [2] Behold, it comes. 6 b An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. 7[†] i Your doom [3] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land.  j The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not  k of joyful shouting on the mountains. 8Now I will soon  l pour out my wrath upon you, and  m spend my anger against you,  d and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 9 e And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst.  n Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.

10[†] o “Behold, the day! Behold, it comes!  p Your doom has come;  q the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. 11 r Violence has grown up into  q a rod of wickedness.  s None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. [4] 12[†] j The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not  t the buyer rejoice, nor  t the seller mourn,  u for wrath is upon all their multitude. [5] 13For  v the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live.  w For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life. [6]

14“They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle,  x for my wrath is upon all their multitude. 15 y The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within.  z He who is in the field dies by the sword,  z and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. 16 a And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like  b doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17[†] c All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 d They put on sackcloth, and  e horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and  f baldness on all their heads. 19They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing.  g Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it.  h For it was  i the stumbling block of their iniquity. 20[†] j His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and  k they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore  l I make it an unclean thing to them. 21And I will give it into the hands of  m foreigners for prey,  n and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and  l they shall profane it. 22I will turn my face from them, and  l they shall profane my treasured [7] place. Robbers shall enter  l and profane it.

23 o “Forge a chain! [8]  p For the land is full of bloody crimes  q and the city is full of violence. 24I will bring  r the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses.  s I will put an end to the pride of the strong,  t and their holy places [9] shall be profaned. 25 u When anguish comes,  v they will seek peace, but there shall be none. 26[†] w Disaster comes upon disaster;  x rumor follows rumor.  y They seek a vision from the prophet, while  z the law [10] perishes from the priest and  a counsel from the elders. 27The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way  b I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them,  c and they shall know that I am the LORD.”