1Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2“And you, son of man, this is what the Lord Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGod says to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.

3Now the end is upon you, for I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and Lit givebring all your abominations upon you.

4And My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will Lit givebring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the Lord!’

5“This is what the Lord Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGod says: ‘A disaster, a unique disaster, behold, it is coming!

6An end Or has comeis coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!

7Your Meaning uncertaindoom has come to you, you inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near—panic rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

8Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and expend My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and Lit givebring on you all your abominations.

9My eye will have no pity nor will I spare you. I will Lit giverepay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the Lord, am striking.

10‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your Meaning uncertaindoom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

11Violence Lit has risenhas grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their Or processionpeople, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them.

12The time has come, the day has arrived. Let neither the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.

13Indeed, the seller will not Lit return toregain Lit the thing sold; i.e., his inherited landwhat he sold as long as Lit their life among the living onesthey both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not Lit returnbe averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his wrongdoing.

14‘They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all Lit hertheir multitude.

15The sword is outside the city and the plague and the famine are within. Anyone who is in the field will die by the sword, while famine and the plague will consume those in the city.

16Even when their survivors escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each over his own wrongdoing.

17All hands will hang limp, and all Heb idiom meaning to wet oneselfknees will drip with water.

18They will put on sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces, and a I.e., shaved as a sign of mourningbald patch on all their heads.

19They will fling their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their Lit soulappetite, nor can they fill their stomachs, because their wrongdoing has become a cause of stumbling.

20Moreover, they transformed the splendor of His jewels into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

21And I will hand it over to the foreigners as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth as spoils; and they will profane it.

22I will also turn My face away from them, and they will profane My treasure; then robbers will enter and profane it.

23‘Make the I.e., used for imprisonmentchain, for the land is full of Lit judgment of bloodbloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

24Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses. I will also put an end to the pride of the strong ones, and their holy places will be profaned.

25When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

26Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the Law will be lost from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

27The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed in horror, and the hands of the people of the land will Lit be horrifiedtremble. I will deal with them because of their conduct, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”