1 A nd the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

The Word of the Lord came to me saying,

2 A nd thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the land of Israel: An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

3 N ow is the end upon thee; and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will bring upon thee all thine abominations.

Now the end is upon you. I will send My anger against you and punish you because of your ways. I will make you pay for all your sinful actions.

4 A nd mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I Jehovah.

My eye will have no pity on you. And I will not let you go without punishment. I will punish you for your ways, and for the hated sins that are among you. Then you will know that I am the Lord!’

5 T hus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil! behold, it is come.

“The Lord God says, ‘See, much trouble is coming!

6 T he end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: behold, it cometh.

An end has come! The end has come! It has come up against you. See, it has come!

7 T he doom is come unto thee, inhabitant of the land; the time is come, the day is near,—tumult, and not the joyous cry from the mountains.

Your punishment has come upon you, O you who live in the land. The time has come. The day is near. The sound of trouble and not of joy is upon the mountains.

8 N ow will I soon pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger against thee; and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will bring upon thee all thine abominations.

Now I will soon pour out My anger upon you. I will send My anger against you. I will punish you for your ways and for the hated sins that are among you.

9 A nd mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will render unto thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that it is I, Jehovah, that smite.

My eye will show no pity, and I will not let you go without punishment. I will make you pay for your ways, and for the hated sins that are among you. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, Who punishes you.

10 B ehold the day, behold, it is come: the doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride is full blown.

‘See, the day! See, it is coming! The time for your punishment has come. The power against you has started to grow. Pride has begun to grow.

11 V iolence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: nothing of them, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth, nor of the magnificence in the midst of them.

Angry action has grown into a power of sin. None of them will be left. None of their people, none of their riches, or anything of honor, will be left among them.

12 T he time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof.

The time has come. The day has come. Let not the one who buys have joy, or the one who sells have sorrow. For anger is against all their people.

13 F or the seller shall not return to that which is sold, even though he were yet alive amongst the living: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof; it shall not be revoked; and none shall through his iniquity assure his life.

For the one who sells will not get back what he has sold as long as both of them live. For the punishment of all their people will not be turned back. Because of their sins, not one of them will keep his life.

14 T hey have blown the trumpet and made all ready, but none goeth to the battle; for my fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof.

‘They have sounded the horn and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle. For My anger is against all their people.

15 T he sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

The sword is outside, and disease and hunger are inside. He who is in the field will die by the sword. And he who is in the city will be destroyed by disease and hunger.

16 A nd they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one for his iniquity.

Whoever gets away alive will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. Each of them will be crying in sorrow because of his sin.

17 A ll hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into water.

All hands will hang without strength, and all knees will be as weak as water.

18 A nd they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

They will dress themselves in cloth made from hair. Much fear will cover them. Shame will be upon all faces, and the hair will be cut from all their heads.

19 T hey shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an impurity: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their belly; for it hath been the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to help them in the day of the Lord’s anger. They cannot stop their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For riches have been the cause of their falling into sin.

20 A nd he set in majesty his beautiful ornament; but they made therein the images of their abominations of their detestable things: therefore have I made it an impurity unto them.

They turned the beauty of gold into objects of pride, and made their hated objects of worship with it. So I will make it an unclean thing to them.

21 A nd I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

I will give it to the strangers and to the sinful people of the earth as a prize of war, and they will make it sinful.

22 A nd I will turn my face from them; and they shall profane my secret; and the violent shall enter into it, and profane it.

I will turn My face from them, and they will make My secret place sinful. Robbers will go into it and make it sinful.

23 M ake the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

‘Make chains, for the land is guilty of blood and the city is full of angry actions.

24 T herefore will I bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses; and I will make the pride of the strong to cease; and their sanctuaries shall be profaned.

So I will bring the worst of the nations to take their houses for their own. I will put an end to the pride of the strong ones, and their holy places will become unclean.

25 D estruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, but there shall be none.

When suffering comes, they will look for peace, but there will be none.

26 M ischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Trouble will come upon trouble, and one story will come after another. They will look for a special dream from a man of God, but the Law will be lost from the religious leader. And wisdom will be lost from the leaders.

27 T he king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with dismay, and the hands of the people of the land shall tremble: I will do unto them according to their way, and with their judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I Jehovah.

The king will be full of sorrow. The king’s son will be covered with fear. And the hands of the people of the land will shake in fear. I will punish them for their ways. I will give them the punishment they have earned. And they will know that I am the Lord.’”