Moreover
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
02 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God
unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come
upon the four corners of the land.
03 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send
mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee
according to thy ways, and will recompense upon
thee all thine abominations.
04 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither
will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways
upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the
midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the
Lord.
05 Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only
evil, behold, is come.
06 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth
for thee; behold, it is come.
07 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that
dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day
of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of
the mountains.
08 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee,
and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will
judge thee according to thy ways, and will
recompense thee for all thine abominations.
09 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity: I will recompense thee according to
thy ways and thine abominations that are in the
midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the
Lord that smiteth.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the
morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed,
pride hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness:
none of them shall remain, nor of their
multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall
there be wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let
not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for
wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which
is sold, although they were yet alive: for the
vision is touching the whole multitude thereof,
which shall not return; neither shall any
strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all
ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath
is upon all the multitude thereof.
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15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and
the famine within: he that is in the field shall
die with the sword; and he that is in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and
shall be on the mountains like doves of the
valleys, all of them mourning, every one for 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 upon all faces, and baldness upon all
their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets,
and their gold shall be removed: their silver and
their gold shall not be able to deliver them in
the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall 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 shall pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they
shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers
shall 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 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the
heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I
will also make the pomp of the strong to cease;
and their holy places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace,
and there shall be none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour
shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a
vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish
from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
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
unto them after their way, and according to their
deserts will I judge them; and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
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