| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying, | 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
| 2"And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel, 'An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land. | 2“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. |
| 3'Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you. | 3The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations. |
| 4For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the LORD!' | 4I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’ |
| 5"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming! | 5This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming! |
| 6'An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come! | 6The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come! |
| 7'Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near-- tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains. | 7Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy. |
| 8'Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations. | 8Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations. |
| 9'My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting. | 9I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow. |
| 10Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed. | 10Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed. |
| 11Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them. | 11Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value. |
| 12'The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude. | 12The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude. |
| 13Indeed, the seller will not regain what he sold as long as they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not be averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity. | 13The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life. |
| 14'They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their multitude. | 14They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude. |
| 15'The sword is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city. | 15The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague. |
| 16'Even when their survivors escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each over his own iniquity. | 16The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity. |
| 17All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water. | 17Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water. |
| 18They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads. | 18They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved. |
| 19'They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling. | 19They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity. |
| 20They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them. | 20His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them. |
| 21'I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it. | 21And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them. |
| 22'I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it. | 22I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it. |
| 23'Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. | 23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence. |
| 24'Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong ones cease, and their holy places will be profaned. | 24So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned. |
| 25'When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none. | 25Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none. |
| 26Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders. | 26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders. |
| 27'The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the LORD.'" | 27The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’ ” |
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