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Ezekiel 7
The Voice
Ezekiel 7
The Voice
After such visual and visceral displays as representing Jerusalem on a brick and prophesying against it; lying on his side for over a year; and taking his own cut hair, burning it, and scattering it with a sword; Ezekiel must have acquired quite a reputation. His very life becomes an object lesson and a teaching display for the Judean exiles.
God is concerned about the glory of His name, so He must punish Jerusalem and the Judean population for their adulterous rebellion. Ironically, it is in the very places where God desires to have sweet and unhindered fellowship with His people that all types of lewd, profane acts of worship transpire. If there is any confusion as to what the Eternal is planning to do, then one need look no further than Ezekiel’s daily behavior.
7 The word of the Eternal came to me.
2 Eternal One: Son of man, this is what I, the Eternal Lord, have to say to the land of Israel:
The end! The end has arrived
for the four corners of the land and everyone in it.
3 The end is upon you,
and I will release My wrath against you.
I will judge you according to your ways,
and I will repay you for all your shocking actions.
4 I will not look on you with pity or spare you—
I will fully repay you for your shocking behavior and despicable deeds.
Then you will know I am the Eternal One.
5 This is what I, the Eternal Lord, have to say:
Wave after wave of evil is coming!
6 The end has arrived! The end has arrived!
It has awakened against you! It has arrived!
7 Doomsday has come for all who live in this land.
The time has arrived; the day is near;
There is no joy upon the mountains—
only shouts of alarm and horrifying terror.
8 It won’t be long now until I pour out My wrath on you,
until I unleash My fierce anger against you;
I will judge you according to your ways
and repay you for all your shocking actions.
9 I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
I will fully repay you for your shocking behavior and despicable deeds.
Then you will know it is I, the Eternal, who have crushed you.
10 Look, the day is here! It has arrived!
Your doom has erupted.
The rod has budded; conceit has blossomed!
11 The consequence—violence—has grown up into a rod to punish the wicked;
no one will be left, not one of the many!
No wealth, no valuables will be left from this doomsday.
12 The time has arrived; the day is now.
Buyer, don’t celebrate; seller, don’t grieve,
for My anger will come to burn all of you!
13 The seller won’t regain his treasures while they both live;
for the vision has to do with everyone, and no one will escape My wrath!
Because of each person’s iniquity,
no one will be able to hold onto his life.
14 Though the trumpet will sound to get everything ready,
no troops will march into battle
because My wrath is against all the people of Jerusalem.
15 The sword falls on anyone outside the city;
disease and famine ravage those who remain inside.
Those in the open will die by the sword;
those inside the city walls will be consumed by famine and disease.
16 The survivors will run for the mountains
and moan like doves because of their sins.
17 Every hand will go weak and limp;
every knee will turn to water.
18 They will dress in sackcloth,
and horror will cover them.
Their faces will be plastered with shame,
and their heads will be shaved.
19 They will throw their silver into the streets
and treat their gold as impure, worthless,
Once they discover their silver and gold cannot rescue them
on the day the Eternal ignites His fierce anger.
They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their bellies with their riches,
for their earthly riches are what made them stumble into sin.
20 They took pride in their attractive jewelry
and constructed breathless idols and disgusting images with it.
Therefore, I will make their riches impure and disgusting to them.
21 I will give their religious rubbish away to strangers
as the wicked marauders of the earth loot and defile their treasures.
22 I will turn My head
so they may desecrate My treasured place;
Pillagers will enter into it, profane it, and vandalize it.
23 Forge a chain,
for the land is soaked in blood and violence,
And the city is brimming with brutality!
24 I will stir up the very worst of the nations
to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the strong ones’ pride,
and their most sacred sites will be desecrated.
25 When the horror of My wrath comes, they will look for a calm place,
but there will be nothing but torrential terror.
26 One disaster after another will hit them;
one bad report after another will come to them.
Then they will seek a vision from any prophet,
but no instruction in the law from the priest
and no wise counsel from the elders will be found.
27 The king will grieve,
the prince will wrap himself in despair,
and the hands of the common people will tremble.
I will deal with them according to the way they dealt with others;
I will judge them according to way they judged others.
Then they will know I am the Eternal One.
Ezekiel 7
New International Version
Ezekiel 7
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The End Has Come
7 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel:
“‘The end!(A) The end has come
upon the four corners(B) of the land!
3 The end is now upon you,
and I will unleash my anger against you.
I will judge you according to your conduct(C)
and repay you for all your detestable practices.(D)
4 I will not look on you with pity;(E)
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.’(F)
5 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“‘Disaster!(G) Unheard-of[a] disaster!
See, it comes!
6 The end(H) has come!
The end has come!
It has roused itself against you.
See, it comes!
7 Doom has come upon you,
upon you who dwell in the land.
The time has come! The day(I) is near!(J)
There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.
8 I am about to pour out my wrath(K) on you
and spend my anger against you.
I will judge you according to your conduct
and repay you for all your detestable practices.(L)
9 I will not look on you with pity;
I will not spare you.(M)
I will repay you for your conduct
and for the detestable practices among you.(N)
“‘Then you will know that it is I the Lord who strikes you.(O)
10 “‘See, the day!
See, it comes!
Doom has burst forth,
the rod(P) has budded,
arrogance has blossomed!
11 Violence(Q) has arisen,[b]
a rod to punish the wicked.
None of the people will be left,
none of that crowd—
none of their wealth,
nothing of value.(R)
12 The time has come!
The day has arrived!
Let not the buyer(S) rejoice
nor the seller grieve,
for my wrath is on the whole crowd.(T)
13 The seller will not recover
the property that was sold—
as long as both buyer and seller live.
For the vision concerning the whole crowd
will not be reversed.
Because of their sins, not one of them
will preserve their life.(U)
14 “‘They have blown the trumpet,(V)
they have made all things ready,
but no one will go into battle,
for my wrath(W) is on the whole crowd.
15 Outside is the sword;
inside are plague and famine.
Those in the country
will die by the sword;
those in the city
will be devoured by famine and plague.(X)
16 The fugitives(Y) who escape
will flee to the mountains.
Like doves(Z) of the valleys,
they will all moan,
each for their own sins.(AA)
17 Every hand will go limp;(AB)
every leg will be wet with urine.(AC)
18 They will put on sackcloth(AD)
and be clothed with terror.(AE)
Every face will be covered with shame,
and every head will be shaved.(AF)
19 “‘They will throw their silver into the streets,(AG)
and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
will not be able to deliver them
in the day of the Lord’s wrath.(AH)
It will not satisfy(AI) their hunger
or fill their stomachs,
for it has caused them to stumble(AJ) into sin.(AK)
20 They took pride in their beautiful jewelry
and used it to make(AL) their detestable idols.
They made it into vile images;(AM)
therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.(AN)
21 I will give their wealth as plunder(AO) to foreigners
and as loot to the wicked of the earth,
who will defile it.(AP)
22 I will turn my face(AQ) away from the people,
and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.
They will enter it
and will defile it.(AR)
23 “‘Prepare chains!
For the land is full of bloodshed,(AS)
and the city is full of violence.(AT)
24 I 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(AU) will be desecrated.(AV)
25 When terror comes,
they will seek peace in vain.(AW)
26 Calamity upon calamity(AX) will come,
and rumor upon rumor.
They will go searching for a vision from the prophet,(AY)
priestly instruction in the law will cease,
the counsel of the elders will come to an end.(AZ)
27 The king will mourn,
the prince will be clothed with despair,(BA)
and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their conduct,(BB)
and by their own standards I will judge them.
“‘Then they will know that I am the Lord.(BC)’”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 7:5 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac Disaster after
- Ezekiel 7:11 Or The violent one has become
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