Ezekiel, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {7:2} You,
son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to Eretz-Israel, An end: the end is
come on the four corners of the land. {7:3} Now is the end on you, and
I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your
ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. {7:4} My eye
shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your
ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and
you shall know that I am the LORD. {7:5} Thus says the Lord GOD: An
evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. {7:6} An end has come, the end
has come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes. {7:7} Your doom has
come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day is
near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the
mountains. {7:8} Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and
accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your
ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. {7:9} My eye
shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you
according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of
you; and you shall know that I, the LORD, do strike. {7:10} Behold,
the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has
blossomed, pride has budded. {7:11} Violence is risen up into a rod of
wickedness; none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor
of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them. {7:12}
The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor
the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude. {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 of it, none
shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of
his life. {7:14} They have blown the [1>]shofar[<1], and have made all
ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its
multitude. {7:15} 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. {7:16} But
those of those who escape shall escape, and 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 feeble, and all knees shall be
weak as water. {7:18} They shall also clothe themselves with
sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all
faces, and baldness on 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 the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls,
neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of
their iniquity. {7:20} As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in
majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their
detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an
unclean thing. {7:21} 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} My face will I turn also 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} Therefore 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} Destruction comes; and they shall seek
peace, and there shall be none. {7:26} Mischief shall come on
mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of
the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel
from the elders. {7:27} The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be
clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall
be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their
own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
{8:1} It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the
fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of
Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there on me.
{8:2} Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire;
from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his
waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing
metal. {8:3} He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of
my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and
brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate
of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where there was the
seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. {8:4}
Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the
appearance that I saw in the plain. {8:5} Then he said to me, Son of
man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my
eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the
altar this image of jealousy in the entry. {8:6} He said to me, Son of
man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the
house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my
sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations. {8:7}
He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a
hole in the wall. {8:8} Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the
wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. {8:9} He said to
me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here. {8:10}
So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and
abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
portrayed around on the wall. {8:11} There stood before them seventy
men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in their midst stood
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand;
and the odor of the cloud of incense went up. {8:12} Then he said to
me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel
do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, the
LORD doesn't see us; the LORD has forsaken the land. {8:13} He said
also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which
they do. {8:14} Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the
LORD's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women
weeping for Tammuz. {8:15} Then he said to me, Have you seen [this],
son of man? You shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
{8:16} He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and
see, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the
altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple
of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they were
worshipping the sun toward the east. {8:17} Then he said to me, Have
you seen [this], son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah
that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they
have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke
me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose. {8:18}
Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither
will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice,
yet will I not hear them.
{9:1} Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause
those who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his
destroying weapon in his hand. {9:2} Behold, six men came from the way
of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his
slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in their midst clothed in
linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood
beside the bronze altar. {9:3} The glory of the God of Israel was gone
up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house:
and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's
inkhorn by his side. {9:4} The LORD said to him, Go through the midst
of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the
foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations
that are done in its midst. {9:5} To the others he said in my hearing,
Go through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare,
neither have pity; {9:6} kill utterly the old man, the young man and
the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man
on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the
old men that were before the house. {9:7} He said to them, Defile the
house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth! They went forth,
and struck in the city. {9:8} It happened, while they were smiting,
and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord
GOD! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of
your wrath on Jerusalem? {9:9} Then he said to me, The iniquity of the
house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full
of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, the LORD has
forsaken the land, and the LORD doesn't see. {9:10} As for me also, my
eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their
way on their head. {9:11} Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had
the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as
you have commanded me.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:14} or, trumpet
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