| 1 | And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'And thou, son of man, Thus said the Lord Jehovah to the ground of Israel: |
| 2 | An end, come hath the end on the four corners of the land. |
| 3 | Now [is] the end unto thee, And I have sent Mine anger upon thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine abominations. |
| 4 | And no pity on thee hath Mine eye, nor do I spare, For thy ways against thee I do set, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah. |
| 5 | Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come. |
| 6 | An end hath come, come hath the end, It hath waked for thee, lo, it hath come. |
| 7 | Come hath the morning unto thee, O inhabitant of the land! Come hath the time, near [is] a day of trouble, And not the shouting of mountains. |
| 8 | Now, shortly I pour out My fury on thee, And have completed Mine anger against thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine abominations. |
| 9 | And not pity doth Mine eye, nor do I spare, According to thy ways unto thee I give, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah the smiter. |
| 10 | Lo, the day, lo, it hath come, Gone forth hath the morning, Blossomed hath the rod, flourished the pride. |
| 11 | The violence hath 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 hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath [is] unto all its multitude. |
| 13 | For the seller to the sold thing turneth not, And yet among the living [is] their life, For the vision [is] unto all its multitude, It doth not turn back, And none by his iniquity doth 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 dieth, 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 hath 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 becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Jehovah, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath 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 Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath 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 hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none. |
| 26 | Mischief on mischief cometh, and report is on report, And they have sought a vision from a prophet, And law doth perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders, |
| 27 | The king doth become a mourner, And a prince putteth 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] Jehovah!' |