JPS - Ezekiel - 7

7:1  Moreover the word of HaShem came unto me, saying:

7:2  'And thou, son of man, thus saith the L-rd GOD concerning the land of Israel: An end! the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

7:3  Now is the end upon thee, and I will send Mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.

7:4  And Mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am HaShem.

7:5  Thus saith the L-rd GOD: An evil, a singular evil, behold, it cometh.

7:6  An end is come, the end is come, it awaketh against thee; behold, it cometh.

7:7  The turn is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land; the time is come, the day of tumult is near, and not of joyful shouting upon the mountains.

7:8  Now will I shortly pour out My fury upon thee, and spend Mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.

7:9  And Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will bring upon thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I HaShem do smite.

7:10  Behold the day; behold, it cometh; the turn is come forth; the rod hath blossomed, arrogancy hath budded.

7:11  Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; nought cometh from them, nor from their tumult, nor from their turmoil, neither is there eminency among them.

7:12  The time is come, the day draweth near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

7:13  For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive; for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any stand possessed of the iniquity of his life.

7:14  They have blown the horn, and have made all ready, but none goeth to the battle; for My wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

7:15  The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within; he that is in the field shall die with the sword, and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

7:16  But they that shall at all escape of them, shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

7:17  All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.

7:18  They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

7:19  They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of HaShem; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

7:20  And as for the beauty of their ornament, which was set for a pride, they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things thereof; therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.

7:21  And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

7:22  I will also turn My face from them, and they shall profane My secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

7:23  Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

7:24  Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses; I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.

7:25  Horror cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

7:26  Calamity shall come upon calamity, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and instruction shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

7:27  The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with appalment, and the hands of the people of the land shall be enfeebled; I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am HaShem.'