0 SAB Ezekiel 7

Ezekiel

CHAPTER 7

I won't pity you, and you'll know I'm God
7:1-27

1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

God came to me and said,

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.

Son of man, this is what I say to Israel,

This is the end of the four corners of the land.

3Now 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.

I'm sending my anger upon you.

4And 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.

I won't spare or pity. [1]

And you'll know that I'm God.

5Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

Evil and only evil is coming.

6An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

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.

The end has come.

8Now 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.

I will soon pour out my fury and anger on you..

9And 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.

10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

I won't spare or pity.

And you'll know that I'm God and it's me that smites.

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.

None of you will survive,

and no one will mourn for you.

12The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

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.

It's coming soon.

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.

I'm angry at everyone.

15The 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.

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.

Those in the city will die from famine and pestilence,

and those in the country will die with the sword.

17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

All hands will be feeble,

all knees will be weak.

18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

Everyone will gird themselves with sackcloth.

Horror and shame will cover their faces.

And every head will be bald.

19They 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.

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.

People will throw their silver onto the streets,

and their gold will be worthless.

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.

Strangers and wicked people will pollute the land.

22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

I'll hide my face from them,

and they'll pollute my secret place.

23Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Violent crime will be everywhere.

24Wherefore 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.

The heathen will possess your houses.

25Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Everything will be destroyed,

and there'll be no peace.

26Mischief 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.

Mischief will follow mischief,

and rumors upon rumor.

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.

I'll make trouble for everyone,

and everyone will know that I'm God.

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