² And to you, son of man, this is what the Lord God says about the soil of Israel. An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. ³ Now that the end is upon you, I will unleash my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways, and I will place on you the penalty for all your abominations.^{[a] 4} My eye will not have pity on you, and I will have no compassion, for I will place on you the penalty for your ways, and the punishment for your abominations will be in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord!

⁵ This is what the Lord God says. Disaster! An unparalleled disaster!^[b] Watch, it is coming! ⁶ An end has come! The end has come! It has begun against you. Look, it is coming! ⁷ Doom^[c] has come upon you, you inhabitants of the land. The time has come, the day is near. A day of panic, not joy, is on the mountains. ⁸ Now very soon I will pour out my wrath upon you, and I will exhaust my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways, and I will place on you the penalty for all your abominations. ⁹ My eye will not show pity, and I will have no compassion. According to your ways I will place the penalty on you, and the punishment for your abominations will be in your midst. Then you will know that I, the Lord, am the one who strikes you!

¹⁰ Look, the day is coming. It is here. Doom has broken out. The rod has budded. Insolence has blossomed. ¹¹ Violence has grown into a rod against wickedness. None of them will remain—none of their noisy crowd,^[d] none of their wealth, not a thing of value among them. ¹² The time has come; the day has arrived.

The buyer should not rejoice. The seller should not grieve, because wrath is coming upon the whole noisy crowd. ¹³ So sellers will not return to what they have sold, even if they survive. Yes, the vision concerning the whole noisy crowd will not be reversed, and each man, because of the guilt in his life, will have no strength.