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

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `And thou, son of man, Thus said the Lord Jehovah to the ground of Israel:

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.

An end, come hath the end 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 the end unto thee, And I have sent Mine anger upon thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine 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!’

And no pity on thee hath Mine eye, nor do I spare, For thy ways against thee I do set, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I Jehovah.

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

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come.

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

An end hath come, come hath the end, It hath waked for thee, lo, it hath come.

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.

Come hath the morning unto thee, O inhabitant of the land! Come hath the time, near a day of trouble, And not the shouting of 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, shortly I pour out My fury on thee, And have completed Mine anger against thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine 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.

And not pity doth Mine eye, nor do I spare, According to thy ways unto thee I give, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I Jehovah the smiter.

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.

Lo, the day, lo, it hath come, Gone forth hath the morning, Blossomed hath the rod, flourished the pride.

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.

The violence hath risen to a rod of wickedness, There is none of them, nor of their multitude, Nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for 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.

Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath unto 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 to the sold thing turneth not, And yet among the living their life, For the vision unto all its multitude, It doth not turn back, And none by his iniquity doth strengthen 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 with a trumpet to prepare the whole, And none is going to battle, For My wrath unto 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 without, And the pestilence and the famine within, He who is in a field by sword dieth, And he who is in a city, Famine and pestilence 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.

And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising -- each for his iniquity.

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

All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.

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.

And they have girded on sackcloth, And covered them hath trembling, And unto all faces shame, And on all their heads -- baldness.

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.

Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Jehovah, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath been.

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 to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things -- they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,

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.

And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted 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.

And I have turned My face from them, And they have polluted My hidden place, Yea, come into it have destroyers, and polluted 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 Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been 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.

And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them.

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

Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is 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 on mischief cometh, and report is on report, And they have sought a vision from a prophet, And law doth 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 doth become a mourner, And a prince putteth on desolation, And the hands of the people of the land are troubled, From their own way I deal with them, And with their own judgments I judge them, And they have known that I Jehovah!'