¹ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ² Also, you son of man, so says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel; An end, the end is come on the four corners of the land. ³ Now is the end come on you, and I will send mine anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense on you all your abominations. ⁴ And my eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways on you, and your abominations will be in the midst of you: and you will know that I am the LORD. ⁵ So says the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, see, is come. ⁶ An end is come, the end is come: it watches for you; see, it is come. ⁷ The morning is come to you, O you that dwells in the land: the time is come , the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. ⁸ Now will I shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish mine anger on you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. ⁹ And my eye will not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you will know that I am the LORD that smites. ¹⁰ See the day, See, it is come: the morning is gone forward; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. ¹¹ Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither will there be wailing for them. ¹² The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is on all the multitude of it. ¹³ For the seller will not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, which will not return; neither will any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. ¹⁴ They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is on all the multitude of it. ¹⁵ The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field will die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence will devour him. ¹⁶ But those escape of them will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. ¹⁷ All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water. ¹⁸ They will also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them; and shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. ¹⁹ They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be removed: their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they will not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. ²⁰ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestsable things in it: therefore have I set it far from them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they will pollute it. ²² My face will I turn also from them, and they will pollute my secret place: for the robbers will enter into it, and defile it. ²³ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. ²⁴ why I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they will possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places will be defiled . ²⁵ Destruction comes; and they will seek peace , and [there will be] none. ²⁶ Mischief will come on mischief, and rumour will be on rumour; then will they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. ²⁷ The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they will know that I am the LORD.