Yechezkel, 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-Yisra'el, 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 is come, the end is
come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes. {7:7} Your doom is come
to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is 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 the multitude of it. {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 the multitude of
it. {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 gird 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 [2>]eretz[<2] 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 shalom, 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 [3>]Kohen[<3], and counsel from the Zakenim. {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 deserts 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 Zakenim of
Yehudah 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 loins and downward, fire; and from his
loins 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 [1>]eretz[<1] and the
sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Yerushalayim, to the door
of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where
was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
{8:4} Behold, the glory of the God of Yisra'el was there, according to
the appearance that I saw in the plain. {8:5} Then said he 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, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the
house of Yisra'el 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 said he 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 Yisra'el,
portrayed on the wall round about. {8:11} There stood before them
seventy men of the Zakenim of the house of Yisra'el; and in the midst
of them stood Ya`azanyah the son of Shafan, every man with his censer
in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up. {8:12} Then
said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the Zakenim of the house
of Yisra'el do in the dark, every man in his chambers 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 said he 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 Yehudah 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 you
them that have charge over 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 the midst of them clothed
in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood
beside the brazen altar. {9:3} The glory of the God of Yisra'el was
gone up from the Keruv, 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 Yerushalayim, and set a mark on the
foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations
that are done in the midst of it. {9:5} To the others he said in my
hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your
eye spare, neither have you 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 you
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
Yisra'el in your pouring out of your wrath on Yerushalayim? {9:9} Then
said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Yisra'el and Yehudah is
exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of
wrestling [of judgment]: 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} trumpet
[2] {7:21} earth
[3] {7:26} priest
[1] {8:3} earth
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