Ezekiel 7

English Standard Version

The Day of the Wrath of the Lord

7 The word of the Lord came to me: ²“And you, ^(A)O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ^(B)An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.^[a] ³Now ^(C)the end is upon you, and ^(D)I will send my anger upon you; ^(E)I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ⁴^(F)And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but ^(G)I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. ^(H)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁵“Thus says the Lord God: Disaster ^(I)after disaster!^[b] Behold, it comes. ⁶^(J)An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. ⁷^(K)Your doom^[c] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. ^(L)The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not ^(M)of joyful shouting on the mountains. ⁸Now I will soon ^(N)pour out my wrath upon you, and ^(O)spend my anger against you, ^(P)and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ⁹^(Q)And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. ^(R)Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

¹⁰^(S)“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! ^(T)Your doom has come; ^(U)the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. ¹¹^(V)Violence has grown up into ^(W)a rod of wickedness. ^(X)None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.^[d] ¹²^(Y)The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not ^(Z)the buyer rejoice, nor ^(AA)the seller mourn, ^(AB)for wrath is upon all their multitude.^[e] ¹³For ^(AC)the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. ^(AD)For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.^[f]

¹⁴“They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, ^(AE)for my wrath is upon all their multitude. ¹⁵^(AF)The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. ^(AG)He who is in the field dies by the sword, ^(AH)and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. ¹⁶^(AI)And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^(AJ)doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. ¹⁷^(AK)All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. ¹⁸^(AL)They put on sackcloth, and ^(AM)horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and ^(AN)baldness on all their heads. ¹⁹They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. ^(AO)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. ^(AP)For it was ^(AQ)the stumbling block of their iniquity. ²⁰^(AR)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^(AS)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^(AT)I make it an unclean thing to them. ²¹And I will give it into the hands of ^(AU)foreigners for prey, ^(AV)and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and ^(AW)they shall profane it. ²²I will turn my face from them, and ^(AX)they shall profane my treasured^[g] place. Robbers shall enter ^(AY)and profane it.

²³^(AZ)“Forge a chain!^[h] ^(BA)For the land is full of bloody crimes ^(BB)and the city is full of violence. ²⁴I will bring ^(BC)the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. ^(BD)I will put an end to the pride of the strong, ^(BE)and their holy places^[i] shall be profaned. ²⁵^(BF)When anguish comes, ^(BG)they will seek peace, but there shall be none. ²⁶^(BH)Disaster comes upon disaster; ^(BI)rumor follows rumor. ^(BJ)They seek a vision from the prophet, while ^(BK)the law^[j] perishes from the priest and ^(BL)counsel from the elders. ²⁷The 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 ^(BM)I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, ^(BN)and they shall know that I am the Lord.”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 7:2 Or earth
Ezekiel 7:5 Some Hebrew manuscripts (compare Syriac, Targum); most Hebrew manuscripts Disaster! A unique disaster!
Ezekiel 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; also verse 10
Ezekiel 7:11 The meaning of this last Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Ezekiel 7:12 Or abundance; also verses 13, 14
Ezekiel 7:13 The meaning of this last Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Ezekiel 7:22 Or secret
Ezekiel 7:23 Probably refers to an instrument of captivity
Ezekiel 7:24 By revocalization (compare Septuagint); Hebrew and those who sanctify them
Ezekiel 7:26 Or instruction

Isaiah 2

English Standard Version

The Mountain of the Lord

2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²^(A)It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that ^(B)the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and ^(C)all the nations shall flow to it,
³    and ^(D)many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For ^(E)out of Zion shall go forth the law,^[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
^(F)and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
^(G)nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore.

⁵O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in ^(H)the light of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

⁶For you have rejected your people,
    the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things ^(I)from the east
    and ^(J)of fortune-tellers ^(K)like the Philistines,
    and they ^(L)strike hands with the children of foreigners.
⁷Their land is ^(M)filled with silver and gold,
    and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is ^(N)filled with horses,
    and there is no end to their chariots.
⁸Their land is ^(O)filled with idols;
    they bow down to ^(P)the work of their hands,
    to what their own fingers have made.
⁹So man ^(Q)is humbled,
    and each one ^(R)is brought low—
    do not forgive them!
¹⁰^(S)Enter into the rock
    and hide in the dust
^(T)from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty.
¹¹^(U)The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²^(V)For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
¹³against all the ^(W)cedars of Lebanon,
    lofty and lifted up;
    and against all the ^(X)oaks of Bashan;
¹⁴against all ^(Y)the lofty mountains,
    and against all the uplifted hills;
¹⁵against every high tower,
    and against every fortified wall;
¹⁶against all ^(Z)the ships of Tarshish,
    and against all the beautiful craft.
¹⁷^(AA)And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
    and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
¹⁸^(AB)And the idols shall utterly pass away.
¹⁹^(AC)And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
    and the holes of the ground,^[b]
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    ^(AD)when he rises to terrify the earth.

²⁰In that day ^(AE)mankind will cast away
    their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the ^(AF)bats,
²¹^(AG)to enter the caverns of the rocks
    and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    ^(AH)when he rises to terrify the earth.
²²^(AI)Stop regarding man
    ^(AJ)in whose nostrils is breath,
    for of what account is he?