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Ezekiel 7
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| 7:1
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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| 7:2
Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An
end, the end is come upon the
four corners of the land. |
(7:2, 6)
"The end is come upon the four corners of the land."
Ezekiel proclaims that the world (which is flat and has four corners) is ending.
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| 7:3
Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee
according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. |
(7:3-9)
God will pour out his fury on
everyone, with pity toward none. By so doing he says that
"ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth." Indeed, who would else would
behave so viciously?
 Is God merciful?
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| 7:4
And mine eye shall
not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy
ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
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| 7:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. |
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| 7:6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. |
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| 7:7
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time
is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the
mountains. |
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| 7:8
Now will I shortly pour
out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I
will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all
thine abominations. |
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| 7:9
And mine eye shall
not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee
according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I
am the LORD that smiteth. |
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| 7:10
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod
hath blossomed, pride hath budded. |
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| 7:11
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain,
nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be
wailing for them. |
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| 7:12
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the
seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. |
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| 7:13
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were
yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which
shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of
his life. |
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| 7:14
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the
battle: for my wrath is upon
all the multitude thereof. |
(7:14-28)
God's is mad at everyone and no one will escape his
wrath. He'll kill them all with war, disease, and
starvation. "Horror shall cover them" and "they shall know that I am the Lord."
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| 7:15
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is
in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine
and pestilence shall devour him.
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| 7:16
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains
like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. |
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| 7:17
All hands shall be feeble, and
all knees shall be weak as water. |
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| 7:18
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover
them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. |
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| 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be
removed: 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 is the stumblingblock of their
iniquity. |
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| 7:20
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the
images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein:
therefore have I set it far from them. |
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| 7:21
And 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 pollute it. |
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| 7:22
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret
place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. |
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| 7:23
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full
of violence. |
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| 7:24
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess
their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their
holy places shall be defiled. |
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| 7:25
Destruction cometh; and they
shall seek peace, and there shall be none. |
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| 7:26
Mischief shall come upon
mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then
shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the
priest, and counsel from the ancients. |
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| 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 unto them
after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
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