Ezequiel 7

¹ Moreouer the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

² Also thou sonne of man, thus saith the Lord God, An ende is come vnto the lande of Israel: the ende is come vpon the foure corners of the lande.

³ Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee allI will punish you as you have deserved for your idolatry.thy abominations.

⁴ Neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I haue pitie: but I will laye thy waies vpon thee: and thine abomination shall bee in the middes of thee, and yee shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

⁵ Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, one euil, euen one euill is come.

⁶ An end is come, the end is come: itHe shows that the judgments of God ever watch to destroy the sinners, who notwithstanding he delays till there is no more hope of repentance.watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

⁷ TheThe beginning of his punishments is already come.morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble [is] near, and not the joyfulWhich was a voice of joy and mirth.shouting upon the mountains.

⁸ Now I will shortly powre out my wrath vpon thee, and fulfil mine anger vpon thee: I will iudge thee according to thy wayes, and will lay vpon thee all thine abominations.

⁹ Neither shall mine eie spare thee, neither will I haue pitie, but I will laye vpon thee according to thy wayes, and thine abominations shalbe in the middes of thee, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde that smiteth.

¹⁰ Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; theThe scourge is ready.rod hath blossomed,That is, the proud tyrant Nebuchadnezzar has gathered his force and is ready.pride hath budded.

¹¹ This cruel enemy will be a sharp scourge for their wickedness.Violence hath risen into a rod of wickedness: none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither [shall there be] wailing for them.

¹² The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyerFor the present profit.rejoice, nor the sellerFor he will lose nothing.mourn: for wrath [is] upon all its multitude.

¹³ For the seller shall notIn the year of the Jubile, meaning that none would enjoy the privilege of the law, (Lev_25:13) for they would all be carried away captives.return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for theThis vision signified that all would be carried away, and none would return for the Jubile.vision [is] concerning its whole multitude, [which] shall not return;No man for all this endeavours himself or takes heart to repent for his evil life. Some read, for none will be strengthened in his iniquity of his life: meaning that they would gain nothing by flattering themselves in evil.neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

¹⁴ The Israelites made a brag, but their hearts failed them.They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath [is] upon all its multitude.

¹⁵ The sword is without, and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field, shall dye with the sword, and he that is in the citie, famine and pestilence shall deuoure him.

¹⁶ But they that flee away from them, shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaines, like the doues of the valleis: all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.

¹⁷ All handes shalbe weake, and all knees shall fall away as water.

¹⁸ They shall also girde them selues with sackecloth, and feare shall couer them, and shame shalbe vpon all faces, & baldnes vpon their heads.

¹⁹ They shall cast their siluer in the streetes, and their golde shalbe cast farre off: their siluer and their gold can not deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels: for this ruine is for their iniquitie.

²⁰ As for the beauty of hisMeaning, the sanctuary.ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things in it: therefore have I set it far from them.

²¹ And I will give it into the hands of theThat is, of the Babylonians.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 myWhich signifies the most holy place, into which none might enter but the high priest.secret [place]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

²³ Make aSignifying that they would be bound and led away captives.chain: for the land is full ofThat is, of sins that deserve death.bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

²⁴ Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and theirWhich was the temple that was divided into three parts.holy places shall be defiled.

²⁵ When destruction commeth, they shall seeke peace, and shall not haue it.

²⁶ Calamitie shall come vpon calamitie, and rumour shall bee vpon rumour: then shall they seeke a vision of the Prophet: but the Lawe shal perish from the Priest, and counsel from the Ancient.

²⁷ The King shall mourne, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the handes of the people in the land shall be troubled: I wil doe vnto them according to their waies, and according to their iudgements will I iudge them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde.