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Moreover the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:

“Also, you son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: ‘An end has come to the land of Israel. The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

‘Now has the end come upon you. And I will send My wrath upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will lay all your abominations upon you.

‘My Eye shall not spare you, nor will I have pity. But I will lay your ways upon you. And your abomination shall be in the midst of you. And you shall know that I am the LORD.’

“Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, a disaster! A singular disaster has come!

‘An end has come! The end has come! It watched for you. Behold, it has come.

‘Doom has come to you who dwell in the land! The time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the joyful shout of the mountains.

‘Now I will shortly pour out My wrath upon you and fulfill My anger upon you. I will judge you according to your ways and will lay all your abominations upon you.

‘My Eye shall not spare you, nor will I have pity. But I will lay upon you according to your ways. And your abominations shall be in the midst of you. And you shall know that I, the LORD, strike.

10 ‘Behold the day. Behold, it has come. Doom has gone forth. The rod flourishes. Pride has budded.

11 ‘Cruelty has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their riches, nor any of them, nor shall there be lamentation for them.

12 ‘The time has come. The day draws near. Do not let the buyer rejoice or let him who sells mourn. For the wrath is upon their whole multitude.

13 ‘For he who sells shall not return to that which is sold, although they were still alive. For the vision was for their whole multitude, and they did not return. Nor does anyone encourage himself in the iniquity of his life.

14 ‘They have blown the trumpet and prepared everyone. But no one goes to the battle. For My wrath is upon their whole multitude.

15 ‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field shall die with the sword. And he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

16 ‘But those who flee away from them shall escape, and shall be in the mountains, like the doves of the valleys. All of them shall mourn, every one, for his iniquity.

17 ‘All hands shall be weak, and all knees shall fall away as water.

18 ‘They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth. And fear shall cover them, and shame upon all faces, and baldness upon their heads.

19 ‘They shall fling their silver into the streets, and their gold shall be far away. Their silver and their gold cannot deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. They shall neither satisfy their souls nor fill their stomachs. For this ruin is for their iniquity.

20 ‘He had also set the beauty of His ornaments in majesty. But they made images of their abominations and of their idols in them. Therefore, I have set it far away from them.

21 ‘And I will give it into the hands of the strangers, to be plundered, and to the wicked of the Earth, to be robbed. And they shall pollute it.

22 ‘I will also turn My Face from them, and they shall pollute My secret place. For the destroyers shall enter it and defile it.

23 ‘Make a chain, for the land is full of the judgment of blood. And the city is full of cruelty.

24 ‘Therefore, I will bring the most wicked of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pomp of the mighty cease. And their holy places shall be defiled.

25 ‘When destruction comes, they shall seek peace, and shall not have it.

26 ‘Calamity shall come upon calamity, and rumor shall be upon rumor. Then they shall seek a vision from the Prophet. But the Law shall perish from the Priest, and counsel from the Ancient.

27 ‘The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people in the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their ways. And I will judge them according to their judgments. And they shall know that I am the LORD.’”