Ezekiel - Chapter 7

1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said to the land of Israel: An end has come, the end has come on the four quarters of the land. 3Now the end has come on you, and I will send my wrath on you, judging you for your ways, I will send punishment on you for all your disgusting acts. 4My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. 5This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming. 6An end has come, the end has come; see, it is coming on you. 7The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back. 8Now, in a little time, I will let loose my passion on you, and give full effect to my wrath against you, judging you for your ways, and sending punishment on you for all your disgusting works. 9My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment. 10See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds. 11Violent behaviour has been lifted up into a rod of evil; it will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back. 12The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow: 13For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living: 14And he who has given a price for goods will not get them, for my wrath is on all of them. 15Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease. 16And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin. 17All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water. 18And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads. 19They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin. 20As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them. 21And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy. 22And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy. 23Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts. 24For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean. 25Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace. 26Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old. 27The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.