| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, | 1Then this message came to me from the LORD: |
| 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“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to Israel: “The end is here! Wherever you look— east, west, north, or south— your land is finished. |
| 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. | 3No hope remains, for I will unleash my anger against you. I will call you to account for all your detestable sins. |
| 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!’ | 4I will turn my eyes away and show no pity. I will repay you for all your detestable sins. 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: Disaster after disaster is coming your way! |
| 6An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! | 6The end has come. It has finally arrived. Your final doom is waiting! |
| 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. | 7O people of Israel, the day of your destruction is dawning. The time has come; the day of trouble is near. Shouts of anguish will be heard on the mountains, not shouts of joy. |
| 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 I will pour out my fury on you and unleash my anger against you. I will call you to account for all your detestable sins. |
| 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. | 9I will turn my eyes away and show no pity. I will repay you for all your detestable sins. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who is striking the blow. |
| 10‘Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded. | 10“The day of judgment is here; your destruction awaits! The people’s wickedness and pride have blossomed to full flower. |
| 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. | 11Their violence has grown into a rod that will beat them for their wickedness. None of these proud and wicked people will survive. All their wealth and prestige will be swept away. |
| 12The time has come, The day draws near. ‘Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude. | 12Yes, the time has come; the day is here! Buyers should not rejoice over bargains, nor sellers grieve over losses, for all of them will fall under my terrible anger. |
| 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. | 13Even if the merchants survive, they will never return to their business. For what God has said applies to everyone— it will not be changed! Not one person whose life is twisted by sin will ever recover. The Desolation of Israel |
| 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“The trumpet calls Israel’s army to mobilize, but no one listens, for my fury is against them all. |
| 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. | 15There is war outside the city and disease and famine within. Those outside the city walls will be killed by enemy swords. Those inside the city will die of famine and disease. |
| 16‘Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. | 16The survivors who escape to the mountains will moan like doves, weeping for their sins. |
| 17Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. | 17Their hands will hang limp, their knees will be weak as water. |
| 18They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads. | 18They will dress themselves in burlap; horror and shame will cover them. They will shave their heads in sorrow and remorse. |
| 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. | 19“They will throw their money in the streets, tossing it out like worthless trash. Their silver and gold won’t save them on that day of the LORD’s anger. It will neither satisfy nor feed them, for their greed can only trip them up. |
| 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 were proud of their beautiful jewelry and used it to make detestable idols and vile images. Therefore, I will make all their wealth disgusting 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 as plunder to foreigners, to the most wicked of nations, and they will defile 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 eyes from them as these robbers invade and defile my treasured land. |
| 23‘Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. | 23“Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with 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 ruthless of nations to occupy their homes. I will break down their proud fortresses and defile their sanctuaries. |
| 25Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. | 25Terror and trembling will overcome my people. They will look for peace but not find it. |
| 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. | 26Calamity will follow calamity; rumor will follow rumor. They will look in vain for a vision from the prophets. They will receive no teaching from the priests and no counsel from the leaders. |
| 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 and the prince will stand helpless, weeping in despair, and the people’s hands will tremble with fear. I will bring on them the evil they have done to others, and they will receive the punishment they so richly deserve. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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