1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, this is what the sovereign LORD says to the land of Israel, The end! The end has come on the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end is upon you, and I will unleash my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will punish you for all your abominations. 4 My eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you. But I will repay you for your ways and the consequences of your abominations will be in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 5 This is what the sovereign LORD says: A disaster, an absolutely unique disaster! Look, it is coming. 6 An end has come! The end has come! It ends its slumber rousing itself against you. Look, it is coming. 7 Your doom has come for you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near, a day of tumult not joyful shouting echoing from the mountains. 8 Soon I will pour out my wrath on you, and completely vent my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will punish you for all your abominations. 9 My eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you. But I will repay you for your ways and the consequences of your abominations will be in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who is striking you. 10 See, the day! Look, it comes! Your doom has sprung up. The rod has blossomed, pride has bloomed. 11 Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them will be left, none of their crowd, neither their wealth nor anything of distinction among them. 12 The time is come, the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, or the seller mourn, for wrath has come on this entire crowd. 13 For the seller will not regain what was sold, as long as they are still alive. For the vision about its whole crowd will not be revoked, because of their sins they will not be able to preserve their lives. 14 They have blown the war trumpet, and have gotten everything ready; but no one goes to the battle, for my wrath is on the entire crowd. 15 The sword is outside, and the plague and the famine are within. The one who is in the field will die by the sword. The one who is in the city, famine and plague will consume. 16 But if any survivors do escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all moaning each one for his own sin. 17 All hands will hang limp, and all knees covered with urine. 18 They will clothe themselves with sackcloth, horror will cover them. Shame will be on all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved bald. 19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be treated as an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the LORD's wrath. They will not satisfy their appetites, nor fill their stomachs. For their wealth was the stumbling block that caused them to sin. 20 As for the beautiful ornaments in which they took pride, that they made into abominable idols and their detestable things, now I have made it an unclean thing for them. 21 I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they will defile it. 22 I will turn my face from them, and they will profane my treasured place; and robbers will enter into it and desecrate it. 23 Make chains, because the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 24 Therefore I will bring in the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strongholds; and their holy places will be profaned. 25 Terror is coming; and they will seek peace, but there will be none. 26 Disaster upon disaster will come, one rumor after another; and they will seek a vision from the prophet; but the instruction will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. 27 The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will do unto them according to their patterns of behavior. I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD."