7:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 7:2 “You, son of man – this is what the sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel: An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land! 1 7:3 The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge 2 you according to your behavior, 3 I will hold you accountable for 4 all your abominable practices. 7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 5 you. 6 For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, 7 and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. 8 Then you will know that I am the Lord!
7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster 9 – a one-of-a-kind 10 disaster – is coming! 7:6 An end comes 11 – the end comes! 12 It has awakened against you 13 – the end is upon you! Look, it is coming! 14 7:7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day 15 is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains. 16 7:8 Soon now I will pour out my rage 17 on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices. 7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 18 you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, 19 and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you. 20
7:10 “Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed! 7:11 Violence 21 has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left 22 – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. 23 7:12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath 24 comes against their whole crowd. 7:13 The customer will no longer pay the seller 25 while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd 26 will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, 27 will fail to preserve his life.
7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. 28 7:15 The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city. 7:16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity. 7:17 All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine. 29 7:18 They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald. 30 7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. 31 Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. 32 They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth 33 was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. 34 7:20 They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, 35 and with it they made their abominable images – their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them. 7:21 I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.