Ezekiel 7:1-15

The End Is Come

7¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ² You, O mortal, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. ³ Now 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. ⁴ My eye will not spare you, I will have no pity. I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are among you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. ⁵ Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster! See, it comes. ⁶ An end has come, the end has come. It has awakened against you; see, it comes! ⁷ Your 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. ⁸ Soon 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. ⁹ My eye will not spare; I will have no pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are among you. Then you shall know that it is I the Lord who strike. ¹⁰ See, the day! See, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed, pride has budded. ¹¹ Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, not their abundance, not their wealth; no pre-eminence among them. ¹² The time has come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude. ¹³ 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. ¹⁴ They have blown the horn and made everything ready; but no one goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. ¹⁵ The 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.