Ezekiel 7:10-27

English Standard Version

^10 (A)“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! ^(B)Your doom has come; ^(C)the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. ^11 (D)Violence has grown up into ^(E)a rod of wickedness. ^(F)None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.^{[a] 12 (G)}The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not ^(H)the buyer rejoice, nor ^(I)the seller mourn, ^(J)for wrath is upon all their multitude.^{[b] 13} For ^(K)the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. ^(L)For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.^[c]

¹⁴ “They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, ^(M)for my wrath is upon all their multitude. ^15 (N)The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. ^(O)He who is in the field dies by the sword, ^(P)and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. ^16 (Q)And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^(R)doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. ^17 (S)All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. ^18 (T)They put on sackcloth, and ^(U)horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and ^(V)baldness on all their heads. ¹⁹ They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. ^(W)Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. ^(X)For it was ^(Y)the stumbling block of their iniquity. ^20 (Z)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^(AA)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^(AB)I make it an unclean thing to them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hands of ^(AC)foreigners for prey, ^(AD)and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and ^(AE)they shall profane it. ²² I will turn my face from them, and ^(AF)they shall profane my treasured^[d] place. Robbers shall enter ^(AG)and profane it.

^23 (AH)“Forge a chain!^{[e] (AI)}For the land is full of bloody crimes ^(AJ)and the city is full of violence. ²⁴ I will bring ^(AK)the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. ^(AL)I will put an end to the pride of the strong, ^(AM)and their holy places^[f] shall be profaned. ^25 (AN)When anguish comes, ^(AO)they will seek peace, but there shall be none. ^26 (AP)Disaster comes upon disaster; ^(AQ)rumor follows rumor. ^(AR)They seek a vision from the prophet, while ^(AS)the law^[g] perishes from the priest and ^(AT)counsel from the elders. ²⁷ The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way ^(AU)I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, ^(AV)and they shall know that I am the Lord.”