Ezekiel 7

Punishment for Wickedness Foretold

1 Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2“And you, son of man, this is what the Lord
Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
God says to the land of Israel: ‘An bend! 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 give
bring all your abominations upon you.
4And My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will
Lit give
,
ebring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will fknow that I am the Lord!’

5 “This is what the Lord
Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
God says: ‘A hdisaster, a unique disaster, behold, it is coming!
6An end
Or has come
is coming; the end has come! It has jawakened against you; behold, it has come!
7Your
Meaning uncertain
doom has come to you, you inhabitant of the land. The ltime has come, the mday is near --panic rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.
8Now I will shortly npour out My wrath on you and expend My anger against you; I will ojudge you according to your ways and
Lit give
bring on you all your abominations.
9My eye will have no pity nor will I spare you. I will
Lit give
repay 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 uncertain
doom has gone forth; the srod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.
11Violence
Lit has risen
has grown into a rod of uwickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their
Or procession
people, none of their wwealth, nor anything eminent among them.
12The xtime has come, the day has arrived. Let neither the ybuyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for zwrath is against all their multitude. 13Indeed, the seller will not
Lit return to
,
abregain
Lit the thing sold; i.e., his inherited land
what he sold as long as
Lit their life among the living ones
they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not
Lit return
be averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his wrongdoing.

14 ‘They have afblown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all
Lit her
their multitude.
15The ahsword 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 aiescape, they will be on the mountains like ajdoves of the valleys, all of them akmoaning, each over his own wrongdoing. 17All alhands will hang limp, and all
Heb idiom meaning to wet oneself
knees will drip with water.
18They will anput on sackcloth and aoshuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces, and a
I.e., shaved as a sign of mourning
,
aqbald patch on all their heads.
19They will arfling their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their assilver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their
Lit soul
appetite, nor can they fill their stomachs, because their wrongdoing has become a cause of stumbling.

The Temple Profaned

20 Moreover, they transformed the splendor of His jewels into pride, and authey 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 avforeigners as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth as spoils; and they will profane it. 22I will also turn My awface away from them, and they will profane My treasure; then robbers will enter and profane it.

23axMake the
I.e., used for imprisonment
chain, for the land is full of
Lit judgment of blood
,
babloody crimes, and the city is bbfull of violence.
24Therefore, I will bring the worst of the bcnations, and they will take possession of their houses. I will also put an end to the bdpride of the strong ones, and their beholy places will be profaned. 25When anguish comes, they will seek bfpeace, but there will be none. 26 bgDisaster will come upon disaster and bhrumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a bivision from a prophet, but the bjLaw will be lost from the priest, and bkcounsel from the elders. 27The king will mourn, the prince will be blclothed in horror, and the hands of the people of the land will
Lit be horrified
tremble. 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.’”

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