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1 Moreover the word of the LORD [Yahweh] came to me, saying,
2 Also, you son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now [is] the end [come] upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense upon you all your abominations.
4 And my eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in the midst of you: and you will know that I [am] the LORD [Yahweh].
5 Thus says the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watches for you; behold, it is come.
7 The morning is come to you, O you that dwell in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble [is] near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations.
9 And my eye will not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations [that] are in the midst of you; and you will know that I [am] the LORD [Yahweh] that smites.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; 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 any of theirs: neither [will there be] wailing for them.
12 The time has come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude of it.
13 For the seller will not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision [is] touching the whole multitude of it, [which] will not return; neither will any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath [is] upon all the multitude of it.
15 The sword [is] without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that [is] in the field will die with the sword; and he that [is] in the city, famine and pestilence will devour him.
16 But they that escape of them will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak [as] water.
18 They will also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and horror will cover them; and shame [will be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be removed: their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD [Yahweh]: they will not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock 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] of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
21 And 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 will pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they will pollute my secret [place]: for the robbers will enter into it, and defile it.
23 Make a 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 heathen, and they will possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places will be defiled.
25 Destruction comes; and they will seek peace, and [there will be] none.
26 Mischief will come upon mischief, and rumour will be upon rumour; then will they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
27 The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they will know that I [am] the LORD [Yahweh].