| New King James Version | NET Bible |
| 1Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2“And you, 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"You, son of man--this is what the sovereign LORD says to the land of Israel: An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land! |
| 3Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. | 3The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge you according to your behavior, I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices. |
| 4My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!’ | 4My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the LORD! |
| 5“Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! | 5"This is what the sovereign LORD says: A disaster--a one-of-a-kind disaster--is coming! |
| 6An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! | 6An end comes--the end comes! It has awakened against you--the end is upon you! Look, it is coming! |
| 7Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. | 7Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains. |
| 8Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. | 8Soon now I will pour out my rage on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices. |
| 9‘My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes. | 9My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who is striking you. |
| 10‘Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded. | 10"Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed! |
| 11Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them. | 11Violence has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left--not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. |
| 12The time has come, The day draws near. ‘Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude. | 12The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd. |
| 13For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity. | 13The customer will no longer pay the seller while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, will fail to preserve his life. |
| 14‘They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude. | 14"They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. |
| 15The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him. | 15The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city. |
| 16‘Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. | 16Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan--each one for his iniquity. |
| 17Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. | 17All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine. |
| 18They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads. | 18They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald. |
| 19‘They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity. | 19They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the LORD's fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. |
| 20‘As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations— Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them. | 20They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images--their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them. |
| 21I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it. | 21I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world's wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it. |
| 22I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it. | 22I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it. |
| 23‘Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. | 23(Make the chain, because the land is full of murder and the city is full of violence.) |
| 24Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled. | 24I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated. |
| 25Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. | 25Terror is coming! They will seek peace, but find none. |
| 26Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders. | 26Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders. |
| 27‘The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!’ ” | 27The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the LORD!" |
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