The End Has Come
7 1 The word of our Father came to me, saying:
2 And you, son of man, this is what the Sovereign Father says to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end is upon you and I will send my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your detestable practices upon you. 4 My eye will not spare you nor will I have pity I will repay you for your ways and your detestable practices will be in your midst. Then you will know that I am your Father.
5 This is what the Sovereign Father says: Disaster! A disaster like no other—look, it is coming! 6 An end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you—look, it is coming! 7 Doom has come upon you, you who live in the land. The time has come the day is near—a day of panic, not of joyful shouting on the mountains. 8 Soon now I will pour out my wrath upon you and unleash my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your detestable practices upon you. 9 My eye will not spare nor will I have pity I will repay you according to your ways and your detestable practices will be in your midst. Then you will know that I am your Father, the one who strikes.
10 Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out the rod has blossomed, arrogance has budded. 11 Violence has risen into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain—none of their crowd, none of their wealth—and nothing of value among them. 12 The time has come the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn for wrath is upon all their crowd. 13 The seller will not return to what he sold, even while both are still alive. For the vision against all their crowd will not be revoked and because of his iniquity no one can hold on to his life.
The Father's Wrath Unleashed
14 They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready but no one goes to battle for my wrath is upon all their crowd.
15 The sword is outside plague and famine are inside. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword and whoever is in the city—famine and plague will devour him. 16 Those of them who escape will flee to the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his own iniquity. 17 Every hand will go limp and every knee will turn to water. 18 They will put on sackcloth and horror will cover them shame will be on every face and every head will be shaved bare. 19 They will throw their silver into the streets and their gold will be treated as something unclean. Their silver and their gold cannot rescue them in the day of my wrath. It cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs for it was the stumbling block that led them into iniquity. 20 They took pride in the beauty of their ornaments and used them to make their detestable images and vile idols. Therefore I have made these things an unclean thing to them. 21 I will hand it over as plunder to foreigners and as spoil to the wicked of the earth and they will defile it. 22 I will turn my face away from them and they will defile my treasured place robbers will enter it and defile it.
23 Forge the chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. 24 I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong and their holy places will be defiled. 25 When anguish comes, they will look for peace but there will be none. 26 Disaster upon disaster will come and rumor upon rumor. They will seek a vision from the prophet but instruction will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders. 27 The king will mourn, the prince will be wrapped in despair and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their own conduct and by their own standards I will judge them. Then they will know that I am their Father.