Ezekiel 7

1Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.Cross-references: Gen 6:13 · Deut 32:20 · 2Chr 34:7 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 51:13 · Lam 1:9 · +12 more

3Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.Cross-references: Ezek 5:13 · Ezek 6:3 · Ezek 6:12 · Ezek 7:8 · Ezek 7:27 · Ezek 11:10 · +6 more

4My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’Cross-references: Jer 13:14 · Jer 16:18 · Jer 25:14 · Ezek 5:11 · Ezek 6:7 · Ezek 6:14 · +15 more

5“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘A disaster! A unique disaster! Behold, it comes.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:12 · Ezek 5:9 · Dan 9:12 · Amos 3:2 · Nah 1:9 · Matt 24:21

6An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.Cross-references: Jer 44:27 · Ezek 7:3 · Ezek 7:10 · Ezek 21:25 · Ezek 39:8 · Zech 13:7 · +1 more

7Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land! The time has come! The day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.Cross-references: Gen 19:15 · Gen 19:24 · Isa 13:22 · Isa 17:14 · Isa 22:5 · Jer 20:7 · +6 more

8Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.Cross-references: 2Chr 34:21 · Ps 79:6 · Isa 42:25 · Jer 7:20 · Lam 2:4 · Lam 4:11 · +17 more

9My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.Cross-references: Isa 9:13 · Mic 6:9 · Gal 6:7 · Rev 20:13

10“‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.Cross-references: Num 17:8 · Ps 89:32 · Prov 14:3 · Prov 16:18 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 28:1 · +7 more

11Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.Cross-references: Ps 78:64 · Isa 5:7 · Isa 9:4 · Isa 14:29 · Isa 59:6 · Jer 6:7 · +17 more

12The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.Cross-references: Isa 5:13 · Isa 24:1 · Jer 32:7 · Jer 32:24 · Ezek 6:11 · Ezek 7:5 · +4 more

13For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.Cross-references: Lev 25:24 · Lev 25:31 · Job 15:25 · Ps 52:7 · Eccl 8:8 · Ezek 13:22 · +1 more

14They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle, for my wrath is on all its multitude.Cross-references: Isa 24:1 · Jer 4:5 · Jer 6:1 · Jer 6:11 · Jer 7:20 · Jer 12:12 · +2 more

15“‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.Cross-references: Deut 32:23 · Jer 14:18 · Jer 15:2 · Lam 1:20 · Ezek 5:12 · Ezek 6:12

16But of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.Cross-references: Ezra 9:15 · Prov 5:11 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 37:31 · Isa 38:14 · Isa 59:11 · +8 more

17All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.Cross-references: Isa 13:7 · Jer 6:24 · Ezek 21:7 · Ezek 22:14 · Heb 12:12

18They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.Cross-references: Gen 15:12 · Job 21:6 · Ps 35:26 · Ps 55:4 · Isa 3:24 · Isa 15:2 · +5 more

19They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.Cross-references: 2Ki 7:7 · 2Ki 7:15 · Job 20:12 · Ps 78:30 · Prov 11:4 · Eccl 5:10 · +10 more

20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:4 · 2Ki 21:7 · 2Ki 23:11 · 1Chr 29:1 · 2Chr 2:9 · 2Chr 3:1 · +19 more

21I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:13 · 2Ki 25:9 · 2Ki 25:13 · 2Chr 36:18 · Ps 74:2 · Ps 79:1 · +1 more

22I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.Cross-references: Ps 10:11 · Ps 35:22 · Ps 74:10 · Ps 74:18 · Jer 18:17 · Ezek 39:23

23“‘Make chains, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:16 · 2Ki 24:4 · Isa 1:15 · Isa 59:3 · Isa 59:7 · Jer 2:34 · +18 more

24Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.Cross-references: 2Chr 7:19 · Ps 83:12 · Ps 106:41 · Isa 5:14 · Jer 4:7 · Jer 6:12 · +8 more

25Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.Cross-references: Isa 57:21 · Isa 59:8 · Jer 8:15 · Lam 4:17 · Ezek 13:10 · Ezek 13:16 · +1 more

26Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.Cross-references: Lev 26:18 · Lev 26:21 · Lev 26:24 · Lev 26:28 · Deut 32:23 · Ps 74:9 · +13 more

27The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments I will judge them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”Cross-references: 1Ki 20:28 · Ps 9:16 · Isa 3:11 · Jer 52:8 · Ezek 7:4 · Ezek 12:10 · +8 more