Ezekiel 7

An end! The end has come

upon the four corners of the land.

³Now the end is upon you,

I will let loose my anger upon you;

I will judge you according to your ways,

I will punish you for all your abominations.

⁴My eye will not spare you, I will have no pity.

I will punish you for your ways,

while your abominations are among you.

Disaster after disaster! See, it comes.

⁶An end has come, the end has come.

It has awakened against you; see, it comes!

⁷Your doom has come to you,

O inhabitant of the land.

The time has come, the day is near—

of tumult, not of reveling on the mountains.

⁸Soon now I will pour out my wrath upon you;

I will spend my anger against you.

I will judge you according to your ways,

and punish you for all your abominations.

⁹My eye will not spare; I will have no pity.

I will punish you according to your ways,

while your abominations are among you.

¹⁰See, the day! See, it comes!

Your doom has gone out.

The rod has blossomed, pride has budded.

¹¹Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness.

None of them shall remain,

not their abundance, not their wealth;

no pre-eminence among them.

¹²The time has come, the day draws near;

let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn,

for wrath is upon all their multitude.

¹⁴They have blown the horn and made everything ready;

but no one goes to battle,

for my wrath is upon all their multitude.

¹⁵The sword is outside, pestilence and famine are inside;

those in the field die by the sword;

those in the city—famine and pestilence devour them.

¹⁶If any survivors escape,

they shall be found on the mountains

like doves of the valleys,

all of them moaning over their iniquity.

¹⁷All hands shall grow feeble,

all knees turn to water.

¹⁸They shall put on sackcloth,

horror shall cover them.

Shame shall be on all faces,

baldness on all their heads.

¹⁹They shall fling their silver into the streets,

their gold shall be treated as unclean.

²¹I will hand it over to strangers as booty,

to the wicked of the earth as plunder;

they shall profane it.

²²I will avert my face from them,

so that they may profane my treasured place;

the violent shall enter it,

they shall profane it.

²³Make a chain!

For the land is full of bloody crimes;

the city is full of violence.

²⁴I will bring the worst of the nations

to take possession of their houses.

I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong,

and their holy places shall be profaned.

²⁵When anguish comes, they will seek peace,

but there shall be none.

²⁶Disaster comes upon disaster,

rumor follows rumor;

they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet;

instruction shall perish from the priest,

and counsel from the elders.

²⁷The king shall mourn,

the prince shall be wrapped in despair,

and the hands of the people of the land shall tremble.

According to their way I will deal with them;

according to their own judgments I will judge them.