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Punishment for Abominations Throughout the Land

¹ And the word of Yahweh came^[a] to me, saying, ² "And you, son of man,^[b] thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel: ‘The end comes, the end on the four corners of the land. ³ Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all your detestable things. ⁴ And my eye will not take pity on you, and I will not show compassion for your ways; on you I will bring your detestable things; they will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.' ⁵ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Look! Disaster after disaster is coming! ⁶ The end comes, comes the end! It has awakened against you! Look! It comes! ⁷ Doom is coming against you, the dweller^[c] of the land; the time comes, the day is near, panic and not joy is on the mountains. ⁸ Soon^[d] I will pour out my rage on you, and I will fully vent my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all of your detestable things. ⁹ And my eye will not take pity, and I will not show compassion. According to your ways I will deal with you,^[e] and your detestable things will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh who strikes.^{[f] 10} Look! The day is coming; doom goes out, the staff blossoms, pride sprouts. ¹¹ Violence has grown to become a staff of wickedness; none^[g] from them will remain, and none^[h] from their abundance nor from their wealth;^[i] and prominence will not be among them. ¹² The time has come, the day has arrived; let not the buyer rejoice, and let the seller not mourn, for anger is on all their multitude. ¹³ For the seller will not return to the merchandise while they are still alive,^[j] for the vision is about all of its multitude; it will not change, and a man because of his guilt will not be able to hold onto his life. ¹⁴ They shall blow on the trumpet and prepare everything,^[k] but there is no one going to the battle, for my anger is on all of their multitude. ¹⁵ The sword is outside,^[l] and the plague and the famine are inside;^[m] the one who is in the field will die by the sword, and the one who is in the city, famine and plague will devour him. ¹⁶ And if their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt. ¹⁷ All of the hands will hang limp, and all of the knees will be wet with urine.^{[n] 18} And they will wear sackcloth, and horror will cover them, and on all of the faces will be shame, and baldness on all of their heads. ¹⁹ Their silver they will discard on the streets, and filth will be their gold; their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy their hunger^[o] and their stomachs they will not fill, for their guilt will be their^[p] stumbling block.

Judgment for the Profanation of the Temple and Sanctuary

²⁰ "‘And the beauty of its^[q] ornament he made into a prideful thing^[r] and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked people of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it. ²² And I will turn my face from them, and they will defile my treasured place, and violent ones will enter and defile it. ²³ Make a chain for the land; it is full of bloody crimes^[s] and the city is full of violence. ²⁴ And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses, and I will put to an end the pride of the mighty ones, and their sanctuaries will be defiled. ²⁵ Anguish comes, and they will seek peace, and there will be none. ²⁶ Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor will be upon rumor. And they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders. ²⁷ The king will mourn, and the prince will be dressed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their way I will do to^[t] them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they will know that I am Yahweh.'"