1 M oreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

The Word of the Lord came to me saying,

2 “ And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end has 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 the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your 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 M y eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the Lord!’

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 “ Thus says the Lord God: ‘A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come!

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

6 A n end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come!

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

7 D oom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in 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 upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your 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 ‘ My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the Lord who strikes.

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 ‘ Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.

‘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 has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for 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 has come, The day draws near. ‘Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude.

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 what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.

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 ‘ They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude.

‘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 outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will 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 ‘ Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each 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 E very hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water.

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

18 T hey will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on 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 ‘ They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the Lord; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of 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 ‘ As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations— Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to 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 I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile 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 I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile 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 ‘ Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, 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 I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled.

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 comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none.

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

26 D isaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will 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 ‘ The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the Lord!’”

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.’”