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| 1The word of the LORD came to me: | 1This message from the LORD arrived for me: |
| 2“And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. | 2"Son of Man, this is what Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: 'It's over! All four corners of the land are out of time! |
| 3Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. | 3Your time is up! I'm sending my anger against you to judge you according to how you live your lives, and I'm going to pay you back with the consequences of all your detestable practices. |
| 4And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD. | 4I won't be showing pity on you and I won't be showing compassion. I'm going to turn your own lifestyles against you while your detestable practices remain among you. Then you'll learn that I am the LORD.'" |
| 5“Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes. | 5"This is what the Lord GOD says: 'It's one evil event after another! "'Look out! It's coming! |
| 6An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. | 6"'The end is coming! "'The end is here! "'And it's looking in your direction! "'Look out! It's arrived! |
| 7Your doom has come to you, O 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"'Your doom has come to you, you who live in the land. The time has arrived, and the day of confusion is near. There will be no shouts of joy on the mountains. |
| 8Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. | 8Very soon now, I'll pour out my burning anger on you. I'll complete expressing my anger at you, judge you according to your behavior, and repay you for all your detestable practices. |
| 9And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes. | 9I won't be showing pity or compassion. I'll repay you according to your behavior while your detestable practices remain among you. And you'll know that I, the LORD, have been attacking you.'" |
| 10“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. | 10"Look out! The day! "Look out! It's coming! "Doom has blossomed. "Arrogance has sprouted! |
| 11Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. | 11"Violence has matured into a branch that is wicked. No one will survive from that vast crowd, from their wealthy people, or from the famous among them. |
| 12The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude. | 12"The time has come! "The day has arrived. Don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller lament, because wrath is coming to attack the entire multitude. |
| 13For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life. | 13The seller won't regain what he has sold while the crowd remains alive, because the vision concerning the entire multitude won't be annulled. No person will be able to survive because of the sin in his life. |
| 14“They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. | 14"They've sounded the alarm, and everyone is prepared, but no one is marching for battle, since I'm angry at the entire multitude. |
| 15The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. | 15The sword lurks outside, but pestilence and famine are on the prowl inside the house. Whoever is in the field will die by violence, while famine and pestilence will devour those in the city. |
| 16And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. | 16Fugitives will escape to the mountains like doves fleeing through the valleys, all of them moaning because of their own iniquity. |
| 17All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. | 17Every hand will be limp. Every knee will glisten with sweat." |
| 18They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. | 18"They'll clothe themselves with sackcloth, terror will overcome them, shame will cover their faces, and baldness will spread over their entire heads. |
| 19They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. | 19They'll fling their silver into the streets, and their gold will be cast away as impure. Their silver and gold won't be able to deliver them during the time of the LORD's wrath. They won't be able to satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs, because their iniquity has tripped them up." |
| 20His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them. | 20"As for his beautiful ornament, he set it up in majesty, but they made detestable images and loathsome idols. Therefore, I'll give them something loathsome— |
| 21And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it. | 21I'll give it as plunder into the control of strangers and as the spoils of war to the wicked who will invade the land to profane it. |
| 22I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it. | 22I'll turn my face away from them so that they'll defile my treasured place. Robbers will enter and profane it! |
| 23“Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. | 23"Forge a chain, because the land is full of bloody judgment and the city is filled with violence. |
| 24I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned. | 24Therefore, I'm bringing the worst of the nations, who will take possession of their houses. I'll cause the pride of the mighty to cease, and their sanctuaries will be profaned. |
| 25When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none. | 25"When destruction comes, they'll seek peace, but there will be none to be found. |
| 26Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders. | 26Disaster upon disaster will come, followed by rumor after rumor. They'll seek an oracle from the prophet, but the Law will be gone from the priests, and counsel from the elders. |
| 27The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.” | 27"The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I'll deal with them according to their behavior and I will judge them by how they've judged. Then they'll learn that I am the LORD." |
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