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The end has come</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">upon the four corners of the land.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Now the end is upon you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will let loose my anger upon you;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will judge you according to your ways,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will punish you for all your abominations.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>My eye will not spare you, I will have no pity.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will punish you for your ways,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">while your abominations are among you.</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none"><span class="text">Then you shall know that I am the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">Disaster after disaster! See, it comes.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>An end has come, the end has come.</span></span><br /><span class="text">It has awakened against you; see, it comes!</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Your doom<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24684a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> has come to you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O inhabitant of the land.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The time has come, the day is near—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">of tumult, not of reveling on the mountains.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Soon now I will pour out my wrath upon you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will spend my anger against you.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will judge you according to your ways,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and punish you for all your abominations.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>My eye will not spare; I will have no pity.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will punish you according to your ways,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">while your abominations are among you.</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none"><span class="text">Then you shall know that it is I the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> who strike.</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>See, the day! See, it comes!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Your doom<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24687b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> has gone out.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The rod has blossomed, pride has budded.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness.</span></span><br /><span class="text">None of them shall remain,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">not their abundance, not their wealth;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">no pre-eminence among them.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24688c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The time has come, the day draws near;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for wrath is upon all their multitude.</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>For the sellers shall not return to what has been sold as long as they remain alive. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not be revoked. Because of their iniquity, they cannot maintain their lives.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24690d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>They have blown the horn and made everything ready;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but no one goes to battle,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for my wrath is upon all their multitude.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The sword is outside, pestilence and famine are inside;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those in the field die by the sword;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those in the city—famine and pestilence devour them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>If any survivors escape,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they shall be found on the mountains</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like doves of the valleys,</span></span><br /><span class="text">all of them moaning over their iniquity.</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>All hands shall grow feeble,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all knees turn to water.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>They shall put on sackcloth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">horror shall cover them.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Shame shall be on all faces,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">baldness on all their heads.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>They shall fling their silver into the streets,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">their gold shall be treated as unclean.</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none"><span class="text">Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the wrath of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. They shall not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>From their<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24697e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them.</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>I will hand it over to strangers as booty,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to the wicked of the earth as plunder;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they shall profane it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>I will avert my face from them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that they may profane my treasured<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24699f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> place;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the violent shall enter it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they shall profane it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Make a chain!<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24700g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text">For the land is full of bloody crimes;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the city is full of violence.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>I will bring the worst of the nations</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to take possession of their houses.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and their holy places shall be profaned.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>When anguish comes, they will seek peace,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but there shall be none.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Disaster comes upon disaster,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">rumor follows rumor;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">instruction shall perish from the priest,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and counsel from the elders.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>The king shall mourn,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the prince shall be wrapped in despair,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the hands of the people of the land shall tremble.</span></span><br /><span class="text">According to their way I will deal with them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">according to their own judgments I will judge them.</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none"><span class="text">And they shall know that I am the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 7:7">Ezekiel 7:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 7:10">Ezekiel 7:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 7:11">Ezekiel 7:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 7:13">Ezekiel 7:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 7:20">Ezekiel 7:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr Symmachus: Heb <i>its</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 7:22">Ezekiel 7:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>secret</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 7:23">Ezekiel 7:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb 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