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Chapter 7 |
| 1 | Moreover the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 2 | Also, thou son of man, thus
saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the
four corners of the land. |
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3 | Now is the end come upon thee, and I
will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and
will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. |
| 4 | And mine eye
shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways
upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall
know that I am the LORD. |
| 5 | Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only
evil, behold, is come. |
| 6 | An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth
for thee; behold, it is come. |
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7 | The morning is come unto thee, O thou
that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and
not the sounding again of the mountains. |
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8 | Now will I shortly pour out
my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee
according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine
abominations. |
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9 | And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that
are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that
smiteth. |
| 10
| Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone
forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. |
| 11 | Violence is
risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their
multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for
them. |
| 12 |
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude
thereof. |
| 13
| For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude
thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the
iniquity of his life. |
| 14 | They have blown the trumpet, even to make
all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude
thereof. |
| 15
| The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine
within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the
city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. |
| 16 | But they
that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of
the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. |
| 17 | All
hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. |
| 18 | They
shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and
shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. |
| 19 |
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:
their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the
wrath of the LORD: they shall 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 detestable things therein: 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
shall pollute it. |
| 22 | My face will I turn also from them, and they
shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall 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. |
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24 | Wherefore I will bring the worst of
the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of
the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. |
| 25 |
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
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| 26 | Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then
shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the
priest, and counsel from the ancients. |
| 27 | The king shall mourn, and the
prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the
land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to
their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
