Ezekiel 7:24-26

Good News Translation

²⁴I will bring the most evil nations here and let them have your homes. Your strongest men will lose their confidence when I let the nations profane the places where you worship. ²⁵Despair is coming. You will look for peace and never find it. ²⁶One disaster will follow another, and a steady stream of bad news will pour in. You will beg the prophets to reveal what they foresee. The priests will have nothing to teach the people, and the elders will have no advice to give.

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Ezekiel 7:24-26

New International Version

²⁴I will bring the most wicked of nations
    to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the pride of the mighty,
    and their sanctuaries^(A) will be desecrated.^(B)
²⁵When terror comes,
    they will seek peace in vain.^(C)
²⁶Calamity upon calamity^(D) will come,
    and rumor upon rumor.
They will go searching for a vision from the prophet,^(E)
    priestly instruction in the law will cease,
    the counsel of the elders will come to an end.^(F)

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Ezekiel 7:24-26

King James Version

²⁴Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

²⁵Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

²⁶Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

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