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The Day of the Wrath of the Lord

¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ² "And you, ^(a)O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ^(b)An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.^{[a] 3} Now ^(c)the end is upon you, and ^(d)I will send my anger upon you; ^(e)I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ^4 (f)And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but ^(g)I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. ^(h)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁵ "Thus says the Lord God: Disaster ⁽ⁱ⁾after disaster!^[b] Behold, it comes. ^6 (j)An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. ^7 (k)Your doom^[c] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. ^(l)The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not ^(m)of joyful shouting on the mountains. ⁸ Now I will soon ⁽ⁿ⁾pour out my wrath upon you, and ^(o)spend my anger against you, ^(p)and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ^9 (q)And 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. ^(r)Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

^10 (s)"Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! ^(t)Your doom has come; ^(u)the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. ^11 (v)Violence has grown up into ^(w)a rod of wickedness. ^(x)None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.^{[d] 12 (y)}The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not ^(z)the buyer rejoice, nor ^(aa)the seller mourn, ^(ab)for wrath is upon all their multitude.^{[e] 13} For ^(ac)the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. ^(ad)For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.^[f]

¹⁴ "They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, ^(ae)for my wrath is upon all their multitude. ^15 (af)The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. ^(ag)He who is in the field dies by the sword, ^(ah)and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. ^16 (ai)And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^(aj)doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. ^17 (ak)All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. ^18 (al)They put on sackcloth, and ^(am)horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and ^(an)baldness on all their heads. ¹⁹ They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. ^(ao)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. ^(ap)For it was ^(aq)the stumbling block of their iniquity. ^20 (ar)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^(as)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^(at)I make it an unclean thing to them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hands of ^(au)foreigners for prey, ^(av)and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and ^(aw)they shall profane it. ²² I will turn my face from them, and ^(ax)they shall profane my treasured^[g] place. Robbers shall enter ^(ay)and profane it.

^23 (az)"Forge a chain!^{[h] (ba)}For the land is full of bloody crimes ^(bb)and the city is full of violence. ²⁴ I will bring ^(bc)the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. ^(bd)I will put an end to the pride of the strong, ^(be)and their holy places^[i] shall be profaned. ^25 (bf)When anguish comes, ^(bg)they will seek peace, but there shall be none. ^26 (bh)Disaster comes upon disaster; ^(bi)rumor follows rumor. ^(bj)They seek a vision from the prophet, while ^(bk)the law^[j] perishes from the priest and ^(bl)counsel from the elders. ²⁷ The 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 ^(bm)I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, ^(bn)and they shall know that I am the Lord."