1A message from the LORD came to me. The LORD said,2‘Son of man, I am the LORD and King. I say to the land of Israel, “The end has come! It has come on the four corners of the land.3The end has now come for you. I will pour out my anger on you. I will judge you based on how you have lived. I will pay you back for all your evil practices. I hate them.4‘ “I will not feel sorry for you. I will not spare you. You can be sure that I will pay you back for how you have lived. I will judge you for your evil practices. I hate them. You will know that I am the LORD.”5‘I am the LORD and King. I say, “Horrible trouble is coming! No one has ever heard of anything like it. It is here!6‘ “The end has come! The end has come! It has stirred itself up against you. It is here!7Death has come on you who live in the land. The time for you to be destroyed has come. The day when it will happen is near. There is no joy on your mountains. There is nothing but panic.8‘ “I am about to pour out all my great anger on you. I will judge you based on how you have lived. I will pay you back for all your evil practices. I hate them.9‘ “I will not feel sorry for you. I will not spare you. I will pay you back for how you have lived. I will judge you for your evil practices. I hate them. You will know that I am the one who strikes you down. I am the LORD.10‘ “The day for me to punish you is here! It is here! Death has arrived. The time is ripe for you to be judged. Your pride has grown so much that you will be destroyed.11Your mean and harmful acts have become like a rod. I will use it to punish those who do evil. None of them will be left. None of their wealth or anything of value will remain.12‘ “The time has come! The day has arrived! I will soon pour out my great anger on the whole crowd of you. Do not let the buyer be happy. Do not let the seller be sad.13The seller will not get back the land that was sold. That will be true as long as both the buyer and seller are alive. ‘ “Ezekiel, the vision I gave you about that whole crowd will come true. They have committed many sins. So not one of them will be able to save their life.14They have blown trumpets. They have made everything ready. But no one will go into battle. I will soon pour out my great anger on the whole crowd.15‘ “There is trouble everywhere. War is outside the city. Plague and hunger are inside it. Those out in the country will die in battle. Those in the city will be destroyed by hunger and plague.16All those who escape and are left alive will run to the mountains. They will sound like doves of the valley when they cry over their sins.17‘ “Their hands will be powerless to help them. They will wet themselves.18They will put on the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad. They will put on terror as if it were their clothes. Every face will be covered with shame. Every head will be shaved.19‘ “They will throw their silver into the streets. They will treat their gold like an ‘unclean’ thing. Their silver and gold won’t be able to save them on the day I pour out my anger. It will not be able to satisfy their hunger. Their stomachs can’t be filled with it. Their silver and gold have tripped them up. It has made them fall into sin.20My people were so proud of their beautiful jewellery. They used it to make statues of their evil gods. I hate those gods. So I will turn their jewellery into an ‘unclean’ thing for them.21‘ “I will hand over their wealth to outsiders. I will turn it over to sinful people in other countries. They will make it ‘unclean’.22I will turn my face away from my people. Robbers will make ‘unclean’ the temple I love. They will enter it and make it ‘unclean’.23‘ “Ezekiel, get ready to put my people in chains. The land is full of murderers. They are harming one another all over Jerusalem.24I will bring the most evil nations against them. They will take over the houses in the city. I will put an end to the pride of those who are mighty. Their holy places will be made ‘unclean’.25‘ “When terror comes, they will look for peace. But there will not be any.26Trouble after trouble will come. One report will follow another. But they will not be true. The people will go searching for a vision from the prophets. But there will not be any. The teaching of the law by the priests will be gone. Advice from the elders will come to an end.27‘ “The king will be filled with sadness. The princes will lose all hope. The hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will punish them based on how they have lived. I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” ’
Ezekiel 7
English Standard Version
The Day of the Wrath of the Lord
1The word of the Lord came to me:2“And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.[1] (Isa 10:23; La 4:18; Eze 2:1)3Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. (Eze 7:2; Eze 7:8; Eze 18:30)4And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord. (Eze 5:11; Eze 6:7; Eze 9:10; Eze 11:21; Eze 16:43; Eze 22:31)5“Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster![2] Behold, it comes. (Eze 5:9)6An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. (Eze 7:2)7Your doom[3] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains. (Jer 25:30; Eze 7:10; Eze 12:23; Zep 1:14)8Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. (Eze 5:13; Eze 7:3; Eze 9:8; Eze 14:19; Eze 20:8; Eze 20:13; Eze 20:21; Eze 20:33; Eze 22:22; Eze 36:18)9And 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. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes. (Eze 6:7; Eze 7:4)10“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. (Isa 10:5; Isa 14:5; Eze 7:2; Eze 7:7)11Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.[4] (Eze 7:10; Eze 7:23; Eze 17:13)12The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.[5] (Isa 24:2; Eze 7:7; Eze 7:14; 1Co 7:29)13For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.[6] (Le 25:13; Eze 9:8)14“They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. (Eze 7:12)15The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. (Jer 14:18; La 1:20; Eze 6:12)16And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. (Isa 38:14; Eze 6:8)17All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. (Isa 13:7; Jer 6:24; Eze 21:7)18They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. (Ps 55:5; Isa 3:24; Isa 15:2; La 2:10)19They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. 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. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. (Pr 11:4; Eze 14:3; Eze 14:7; Eze 44:12; Zep 1:18; 1Ti 6:10)20His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them. (Isa 64:11; Eze 8:5; Eze 9:7; Eze 16:17; Eze 24:21; Eze 25:3)21And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it. (Eze 7:20; Eze 7:24; Eze 23:46; Eze 28:7)22I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured[7] place. Robbers shall enter and profane it. (Eze 7:20)23“Forge a chain![8] For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. (Jer 6:7; Jer 27:2; Eze 7:11; Eze 8:17; Eze 9:9; Eze 11:6; Eze 22:3)24I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places[9] shall be profaned. (Eze 7:11; Eze 7:20; Eze 7:21; Hab 1:6; Hab 1:13)25When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none. (Jer 6:14; Jer 8:15; Eze 7:2; 1Th 5:3)26Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law[10] perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders. (1Ki 12:6; Job 1:16; Ps 74:9; Jer 4:20; Eze 20:1; Eze 20:3; Mal 2:7)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 I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.” (Eze 6:7; Eze 7:4)