1 T he Word of the Lord came to me saying,

Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2 “ 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.

You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end has come on the four corners of the land.

3 N ow 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.

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 M y 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!’

My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be among you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

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

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.

6 A n end has come! The end has come! It has come up against you. See, it has come!

An end has come, the end has come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes.

7 Y our 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.

Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.

8 N ow 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.

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 M y 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.

My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be among you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.

10 ‘ 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.

Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom has gone out; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.

11 A ngry 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.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There shall be nothing of value among them.

12 T he 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.

The time has come, the day draws near: don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

13 F or 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.

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

They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.

15 T he 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.

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 W hoever 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.

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

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

18 T hey 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.

They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

19 T hey 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.

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 Yahweh’s wrath: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

20 T hey 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.

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

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

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

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

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

24 S o 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.

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

Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

26 T rouble 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.

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 T he 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.’”

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 own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.