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3.8 KiB
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114 lines
3.8 KiB
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# Chapter 7
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1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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2 “And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel:
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‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
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3 Now the end has come upon you,
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And I will send My anger against you;
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I will judge you according to your ways,
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And I will repay you for all your abominations.
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4 My eye will not spare you,
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Nor will I have pity;
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But I will repay your ways,
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And your abominations will be in your midst;
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Then you shall know that I am the Lord!’
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5 “Thus says the Lord God:
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‘A disaster, a singular disaster;
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Behold, it has come!
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6 An end has come,
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The end has come;
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It has dawned for you;
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Behold, it has come!
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7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
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The time has come,
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A day of trouble is near,
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And not of rejoicing in the mountains.
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8 Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury,
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And spend My anger upon you;
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I will judge you according to your ways,
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And I will repay you for all your abominations.
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9 ‘My eye will not spare,
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Nor will I have pity;
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I will repay you according to your ways,
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And your abominations will be in your midst.
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Then you shall know that I am the Lord who strikes.
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10 ‘Behold, the day!
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Behold, it has come!
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Doom has gone out;
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The rod has blossomed,
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Pride has budded.
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11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
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None of them shall remain,
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None of their multitude,
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None of them;
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Nor shall there be wailing for them.
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12 The time has come,
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The day draws near.
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‘Let not the buyer rejoice,
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Nor the seller mourn,
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For wrath is on their whole multitude.
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13 For the seller shall not return to what has been sold,
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Though he may still be alive;
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For the vision concerns the whole multitude,
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And it shall not turn back;
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No one will strengthen himself
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Who lives in iniquity.
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14 ‘They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready,
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But no one goes to battle;
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For My wrath is on all their multitude.
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15 The sword is outside,
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And the pestilence and famine within.
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Whoever is in the field
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Will die by the sword;
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And whoever is in the city,
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Famine and pestilence will devour him.
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16 ‘Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains
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Like doves of the valleys,
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All of them mourning,
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Each for his iniquity.
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17 Every hand will be feeble,
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And every knee will be as weak as water.
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18 They will also be girded with sackcloth;
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Horror will cover them;
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Shame will be on every face,
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Baldness on all their heads.
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19 ‘They will throw their silver into the streets,
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And their gold will be like refuse;
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Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them
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In the day of the wrath of the Lord;
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They will not satisfy their souls,
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Nor fill their stomachs,
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Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.
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20 ‘As for the beauty of his ornaments,
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He set it in majesty;
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But they made from it
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The images of their abominations—
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Their detestable things;
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Therefore I have made it
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Like refuse to them.
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21 I will give it as plunder
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Into the hands of strangers,
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And to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
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And they shall defile it.
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22 I will turn My face from them,
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And they will defile My secret place;
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For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
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23 ‘Make a chain,
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For the land is filled with crimes of blood,
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And the city is full of violence.
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24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles,
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And they will possess their houses;
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I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,
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And their holy places shall be defiled.
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25 Destruction comes;
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They will seek peace, but there shall be none.
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26 Disaster will come upon disaster,
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And rumor will be upon rumor.
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Then they will seek a vision from a prophet;
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But the law will perish from the priest,
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And counsel from the elders.
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27 ‘The king will mourn,
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The prince will be clothed with desolation,
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And the hands of the common people will tremble.
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I will do to them according to their way,
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And according to what they deserve I will judge them;
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Then they shall know that I am the Lord!’ ” |