CLV(i)
1 And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, `And you, son of man, Thus said the Lord Yahweh to the ground of Israel:"
2 An end, come has the end on the four corners of the land."
3 Now [is] the end unto you, And I have sent Mine anger upon you, And judged you according to your ways, And set against you all your abominations."
4 And no pity on you has Mine eye, nor do I spare, For your ways against you I do set, And your abominations are in your midst, And you have known that I [am] Yahweh."
5 Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Evil, a single evil, lo, it has come."
6 An end has come, come has the end, It has waked for you, lo, it has come."
7 Come has the morning unto you, O inhabitant of the land! Come has the time, near [is] a day of trouble, And not the shouting of mountains."
8 Now, shortly I pour out My fury on you, And have completed Mine anger against you, And judged you according to your ways, And set against you all your abominations."
9 And not pity does Mine eye, nor do I spare, According to your ways unto you I give, And your abominations are in your midst, And you have known that I [am] Yahweh the smiter."
10 Lo, the day, lo, it has come, Gone forth has the morning, Blossomed has the rod, flourished the pride."
11 The violence has risen to a rod of wickedness, There is none of them, nor of their multitude, Nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for them."
12 Come has the time, arrived has the day, The buyer does not rejoice, And the seller does not become a mourner, For wrath [is] unto all its multitude."
13 For the seller to the sold thing turns not, And yet among the living [is] their life, For the vision [is] unto all its multitude, It does not turn back, And none by his iniquity does strengthen his life."
14 They have blown with a trumpet to prepare the whole, And none is going to battle, For My wrath [is] unto all its multitude."
15 The sword [is] without, And the pestilence and the famine within, He who is in a field by sword dies, And he who is in a city, Famine and pestilence devour him."
16 And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising--each for his iniquity."
17 All the hands are feeble, and all knees go--waters."
18 And they have girded on sackcloth, And covered them has trembling, And unto all faces [is] shame, And on all their heads--baldness."
19 Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becomes. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Yahweh, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it has been."
20 As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things--they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,
21 And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted it."
22 And I have turned My face from them, And they have polluted My hidden place, Yea, come into it have destroyers, and polluted it."
23 Make the chain; for the land Has been full of bloody judgments, And the city has been full of violence."
24 And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them."
25 Destruction has come, And they have sought peace, and there is none."
26 Mischief on mischief comes, and report is on report, And they have sought a vision from a prophet, And law does perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders,
27 The king does become a mourner, And a prince puts on desolation, And the hands of the people of the land are troubled, From their own way I deal with them, And with their own judgments I judge them, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh!'"