Ezekiel Chapter 7

Ezek 6:11-14

The End Has Come

¹ A message from the LORD came to me:

² “Son of man, the Lord GOD says to Israel, ‘The end is coming on the four corners of your land. ³ I’ll judge you by your ways, direct my anger at you, and bring your detestable things against you. ⁴ I won’t pity or spare when I bring on you the consequences of your deeds with the detestable things you’ve used.’ ⁵ A disaster—a unique disaster—is coming! ⁶ The end is here! It has awakened against you! ⁷ You’re doomed, resident in the land—confusion instead of happy shouting on the mountains. [ ⁸ ] ⁹ You’ll know that I the LORD am striking you.

¹⁰ “The rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed, ¹¹ violence has grown into a rod of sinfulness. Nothing will remain of their multitude, their wealth, or anything outstanding that they have. ¹² The buyer shouldn’t celebrate, the seller shouldn’t mourn, because anger is aimed at their abundance. ¹³ The seller won’t regain what he sold as long as they’re both alive, because the vision about their affluence won’t fade away. Because of his sin, neither will live.      Ezek 7:1-13      

¹⁴ “They’ve blown the bugle and everything’s ready, but nobody is going to battle because I’m angry with their whole population. ¹⁵ The sword’s outside; famine and disease are inside. The ones out in the country will die by the sword; famine and disease will kill the ones in the city. ¹⁶ Even when survivors escape, they’ll be on the mountains like pigeons from the valley, mourning over his sinfulness. ¹⁷ Hands will hang limp; knees will be like water. ¹⁸ They’ll put on burlap and shudder. Their faces will blush; their heads will be bald. ¹⁹ They’ll toss their silver into the streets and abhor their gold. Their silver and gold won’t be able to deliver them from the LORD’s anger. They won’t satisfy their hunger with it because that’s what made them stumble. ²⁰ The beautiful jewels they were so proud of, they used for making detestable idols; so I’ll turn their wealth into something detestable to them. ²¹ I’ll give them to foreigners as plunder, to the sinful as spoil; and they’ll defile them. ²² I’ll look the other way while invaders profane my precious land. Robbers will go in and defile it ²³ and make it desolate.       

Ezek 7:14-23a

“The land’s filled with bloody crimes; the city’s full of violence. ²⁴ So I’ll bring the worst of the nations to take over their houses. I’ll put an end to their proud strength and profane their holy places. ²⁵ When anguish comes, they’ll look for peace, but there won’t be any, ²⁶ just disaster on top of disaster, rumor on top of rumor. They’ll find no vision from a prophet; the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders. ²⁷ The king will mourn; the prince will put on rags; the people’s hands will tremble. I’ll deal with them by the way they’ve acted, judge them by their own judgments. They’ll know I’m the LORD.’”

Ezek 7:23b-27