[1] Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [2] You, son of man,
thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on
the four corners of the land. [3] Now is the end on you, and I will send my
anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring
on you all your abominations. [4] My eye shall not spare you, neither will
I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall
be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [5] Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. [6] An end is
come, the end is come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes. [7] Your
doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is
near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.
[8] Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger
against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on
you all your abominations. [9] My eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations
shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.
[10] Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod
has blossomed, pride has budded. [11] Violence is risen up into a rod of
wickedness; none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of
their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them. [12] The time is
come, the day draws near: don`t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller
mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it. [13] For the seller shall
not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the
vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither
shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. [14] They have
blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle;
for my wrath is on all the multitude of it. [15] The sword is outside, and
the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with
the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour
him. [16] But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the
mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his
iniquity. [17] All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water. [18] They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror
shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all
their heads. [19] They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their
gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be
able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not
satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; 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 have I 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 spoil; and they shall profane
it. [22] My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my
secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it. [23] Make
the chain; 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
shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to
cease; and their holy places shall be profaned. [25] Destruction comes; and
they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. [26] Mischief shall come on
mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the
prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the
elders. [27] The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I
will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I
judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.