1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 "You, Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land!
3 Now the end is on you; I will let loose my anger against you, judge you by your ways, and lay on you all your abominations.
4 My eye will not spare you and I will show no pity; I will lay your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster! A disaster like no other! It is coming!
6 An end is coming; the end is coming! It has roused itself against you. See, it is coming!
7 Your doom has come for you, you who live in the land. The time is coming, the day is near: panic, not joyful cries, on the mountains.
8 Very soon now I will pour my wrath on you and vent my anger against you; I will judge you by your ways and lay on you all your abominations.
9 My eye will not spare, and I will show no pity; I will lay your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes.
10 "Here is the day! See, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has flowered, arrogance has sprouted.
11 Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. Nothing will be left of them, nothing of their crowd, nothing of their wealth, and no eminence among them.
12 The time has come, the day has struck. The buyer should not be glad, nor the seller grieve, for wrath is on all her crowd.
13 The seller will not get back what he sold, even if they are still alive, for the vision concerning all her crowd will not be revoked, and because of his iniquity none will hold on to his life.
14 "They have sounded the trumpet and prepared everything, but no one goes out to battle, because my wrath is on all her crowd.
15 Outside is the sword, inside are pestilence and famine. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword, and whoever is in the city will be eaten up by famine and pestilence.
16 Even if some of them escape and survive, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each for his iniquity.
17 Every hand will hang limp, and every knee will drip with water.
18 They will wrap themselves in sackcloth and shuddering will cover them; shame will be on every face and every head will be shaved bald.
19 They will fling their silver in the streets, and their gold will become a thing unclean. Their silver and gold cannot rescue them on the day of the LORD's wrath. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it was what made them stumble into iniquity.
20 His beautiful ornament he set in majesty, but with it they made their abominable images, their vile things. That is why I am making it unclean to them.
21 I will hand it over to foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
22 I will turn my face away from them, and they will profane my treasured place; violent men will come into it and profane it.
23 "Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
24 I will bring in the most wicked of the nations, and they will take over their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be profaned.
25 Terror is coming; they will look for peace, and there will be none.
26 Calamity will follow calamity, report will follow report. They will look for a vision from a prophet; instruction will fail from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
27 The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed in despair, and the hands of the people of the land will shake. I will treat them according to their ways and judge them by their own standards. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."