| Chapter
7 |
| 1 |
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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25 | Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and
there shall be none. |
| 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. |
