7: 1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
7: 2 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
7: 3 Now is the end upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.
7: 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
7: 5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.
7: 6 An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee; behold, it cometh,
7: 7 40Thy doom is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, 41upon the mountains.
40Or, The turn or, The crowning time
41Or, from


7: 8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish mine anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.
7: 9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring upon thee according to thy ways; and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, do smite.
7: 10 Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
7: 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; 42none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be 43eminency among them.
42Or, not from them, nor from their multitude, nor from their wealth:
43Or, wailing for them.


7: 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.
7: 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, 44although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, 45none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself 46in the iniquity of his life.
44Hb. though their life be yet among the living:
45Or, it shall not turn back;
46Or, whose life is in his iniquity.


7: 14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goeth to the battle; for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
7: 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.
7: 16 But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
7: 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
7: 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.
7: 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
7: 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, 47he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things 48therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.
47Or, they turned it to pride; and they made etc.
48Or, thereof:


7: 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 profane it.
7: 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my 49secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
49Or, secret treasure;

7: 23 Make the chain; for the land is full of 50bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
50Hb. judgment of bloods,

7: 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and 51their holy places shall be profaned.
51Or, they that sanctify them shall be profaned.

7: 25 52Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
52Or, Distress

7: 26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
7: 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 Jehovah.