The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 07
1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying,
2 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says
to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has
come on the four corners of the land.
3 Now the end is on you, and I will send
my anger on you, and will judge you according
to your ways. I will bring on you
all your abominations.
4 My eye will not spare you, neither will
I have pity; but I will bring your ways on
you, and your abominations will be among
you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’
5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘A disaster! A
unique disaster! Behold, it comes.
6 An end has come. The end has come! It
awakes against you. Behold, it comes.
7 Your doom has come to you, inhabitant
of the land! The time has come! The day
is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful
shouting, on the mountains.
8 Now I will shortly pour out my wrath
on you, and accomplish my anger against
you, and will judge you according to your
ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
9 My eye won’t spare, neither will I have
pity. I will punish you according to your
ways. Your abominations will be among
you. Then you will know that I, Yahweh,
strike.
10 “ ‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes!
Your doom has gone out. The rod has
blossomed. Pride has budded.
11 Violence has risen up into a rod of
wickedness. None of them will remain,
nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth.
There will be nothing of value among
them.
12 The time has come! The day draws
near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the
seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
13 For the seller won’t return to that
which is sold, although they are still alive;
for the vision concerns the whole multitude of
it. None will return. None will
strengthen himself in the iniquity of his
life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, and
have made all ready; but no one goes to the
battle, for my wrath is on all its multitude.
15 “ ‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence
and the famine within. He who is in
the field will die by the sword. He who is
in the city will be devoured by famine and
pestilence.
16 But of those who escape, they will
escape and will be on the mountains like
doves of the valleys, all of them moaning,
everyone in his iniquity.
17 All hands will be feeble, and all knees
will be weak as water.
18 They will also clothe themselves with
sackcloth, and horror will cover them.
Shame will be on allfaces, and baldness on
all their heads.
19 They will casttheir silver inthe streets,
and their gold will be as an unclean thing.
Their silver and their gold won’t be able to
deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath.
They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their
bellies; because it has been the stumbling
block of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he
set it in majesty; but they made the images
of their abominations and their detestable
things therein. Therefore I have made it to
them as an unclean thing.
21 I will give it into the hands of the
strangers for a prey, and to the wicked
of the earth for a plunder; and they will
profane it.
22 I will also turn my face from them, and
they will profane my secret place. Robbers
will enter into it, and profane it.
23 “ ‘Make chains, for the land is full of
bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the
nations, and they will possess their houses.
I will also make the pride of the strong to
cease. Their holy places will be profaned.
25 Destruction comes! They will seek
peace, and there will be none.
26 Mischief will come on mischief, and
rumor will be on rumor. They will seek
a vision of the prophet; but the law will
perish from the priest, and counsel from
the elders.
27 The king will mourn, and the prince
will be clothed with desolation. The hands
of the people of the land will be troubled.
I will do to them after their way, and
according to their own judgments I will
judge them. Then they will know that I am
Yahweh.’ ”