Ezekiel 7:1-13

Common English Bible

The end

7 The Lord’s word came to me: ²You, human one, this is what the Lord God proclaims to the land of Israel:

An end! The end has come to the four corners of the earth!
³    Even now the end is upon you!
I’ll send my anger against you,
    I’ll judge you according to your ways,
    and I’ll turn all your detestable practices against you.
⁴I won’t shed a tear for you or show any pity.
    Instead, I’ll turn your ways against you,
    and your detestable practices will stay with you.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁵The Lord God proclaims:

Disaster! A singular disaster! Look, it comes!
⁶    The end has come! Oh, yes, it has come!
    It has come to you! Look, it’s here!
⁷You who live on the earth,
    you are finally caught in your own trap!
    The time has come; the day draws near.
    On the hills panic, not glory.
⁸        And now it’s near!
Against you I will pour out my wrath,
    and my anger will be satisfied.
I’ll judge you according to your ways,
    and turn all your detestable practices against you.
⁹I won’t shed a tear or show any pity
    when I turn your ways against you,
    and your detestable practices stay with you.
Then you will know that I, the Lord, am the one who strikes you!

¹⁰Look, the day! Look, it comes!
    Doom has arrived! The staff blossoms, and pride springs up!
¹¹Violence rises up as a wicked master.^[a]
    It isn’t from others or their armies or their violence.
        It hasn’t loomed up because of them.
¹²The time is coming! The day draws near!
    No buyer should rejoice, and no seller should mourn,
        because wrath overcomes the whole crowd.
¹³    The seller will never get back what was sold,
        even if both of them survive.
The vision concerns the whole crowd.
        It won’t be revoked.
    And the guilty ones—
        they won’t even be able to hang on to their lives.