Announcement of the End
1The word of the Lord came to me:
2“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel:
An end! The end has come
3The end is now upon you;
I will send my anger against you
and judge you according to your ways.
I will punish you for all your detestable practices.
but I will punish you for your ways7:4 Ezk 11:21
and for your detestable practices within you.
5This is what the Lord God says:
Look, one disaster after another is coming!7:5 2Kg 21:12–13
6An end has come; the end has come!
It has awakened against you.
Look, it is coming!
inhabitants of the land.
The time has come; the day is near.
There will be panic on the mountains
and not celebration.7:7 Jl 2:1–2; Am 5:18–20; Zph 1:14–15
I will exhaust my anger against you
and judge you according to your ways.
I will punish you for all your detestable practices.
9I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
I will punish you for your ways
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know
that it is I, the Lord, who strikes.
10Here is the day! Here it comes!
Doom is on its way.7:10 Ezk 7:7
The rod has blossomed;7:10 Nm 17:8
arrogance has bloomed.7:10 Is 10:5; Mt 24:32–33
None of them will remain:
none of that crowd,
none of their wealth,
and none of the eminent7:11 Some Hb mss, Syr, Vg read and no rest among them.
12The time has come; the day has arrived.
Let the buyer not rejoice7:12 Pr 20:14
and the seller not mourn,
for wrath is on her whole crowd.7:12 Is 24:2
13The seller will certainly not return
to what was sold
as long as he and the buyer remain alive.7:13 Lit sold, while still in life is their life
For the vision concerning her whole crowd
will not be revoked,
and because of the iniquity of each one,
none will preserve his life.
and prepared everything,
but no one goes to war,
for my wrath is on her whole crowd.
15The sword is on the outside;7:15 Jr 14:18; Ezk 6:11–12
plague and famine are on the inside.
Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,
and famine and plague will devour
whoever is in the city.
and live on the mountains.
Like doves of the valley,
all of them will moan,
each over his own iniquity.
17All their hands will become weak,
18They will put on sackcloth,
and horror will overwhelm them.
Shame will cover all their faces,
19They will throw their silver into the streets,
Their silver and gold will be unable to save them
They will not satisfy their appetites
or fill their stomachs,
for these were the stumbling blocks7:19 Ezk 14:3
that brought about their iniquity.
20He appointed his beautiful ornaments for majesty,
but7:20 Or They turned their beautiful ornaments into objects of pride, and they made their detestable images from them,
Therefore, I have made these
into something filthy to them.
21I will hand these things over
to foreigners as plunder7:21 2Kg 24:13
and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,
and they will profane them.
22I will turn my face from them
as they profane my treasured place.
Violent men will enter it and profane it.
for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,
to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the pride of the strong,
25Anguish is coming!
They will look for peace, but there will be none.
and there will be rumor after rumor.7:26 Ezk 21:7
but instruction will perish from the priests
27The king will mourn;
the prince will be clothed in grief;
and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their own conduct,
and I will judge them by their own standards.7:27 Mt 7:2
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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