You have rejected(A) me,” declares the Lord.
    “You keep on backsliding.
So I will reach out(B) and destroy you;
    I am tired of holding back.(C)

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I will not look on you with pity;(A)
    I will not spare you.
I will surely repay you for your conduct
    and for the detestable practices among you.

“‘Then you will know that I am the Lord.’(B)

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘Disaster!(C) Unheard-of[a] disaster!
    See, it comes!
The end(D) has come!
    The end has come!
It has roused itself against you.
    See, it comes!
Doom has come upon you,
    upon you who dwell in the land.
The time has come! The day(E) is near!(F)
    There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.
I am about to pour out my wrath(G) on you
    and spend my anger against you.
I will judge you according to your conduct
    and repay you for all your detestable practices.(H)
I will not look on you with pity;
    I will not spare you.(I)
I will repay you for your conduct
    and for the detestable practices among you.(J)

“‘Then you will know that it is I the Lord who strikes you.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:5 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac Disaster after

“What do you see,(A) Amos?(B)” he asked.

“A basket(C) of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(D)

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