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Announcement of the End
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# Chapter 7
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1. The word of the Lord came to me:
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2. "Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel:
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An end! The end has come
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on the four corners of the earth.
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3. The end is now upon you;
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I will send my anger against you
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and judge you according to your ways.
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I will punish you for all your detestable practices.
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4. I will not look on you with pity or spare you,
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but
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I will punish you for your ways
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and for your detestable practices within you.
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Then you will know that I am the Lord."
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5. This is what the Lord God says:
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Look, one disaster after another is coming!
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6. An end has come; the end has come!
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It has awakened against you.
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Look, it is coming!
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7. Doom has come on you,
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inhabitants of the land.
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The time has come; the day is near.
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There will be panic on the mountains
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and not celebration.
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8. I will pour out my wrath on you very soon;
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I will exhaust my anger against you
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and judge you according to your ways.
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I will punish you for all your detestable practices.
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9. I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
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I will punish you for your ways
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and for your detestable practices within you.
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Then you will know
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that it is I, the Lord, who strikes.
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10. Here is the day! Here it comes!
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Doom is on its way.
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The rod has blossomed;
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arrogance has bloomed.
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11. Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness.
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None of them will remain:
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none of that crowd,
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none of their wealth,
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and none of the eminent among them.
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12. The time has come; the day has arrived.
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Let the buyer not rejoice
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and the seller not mourn,
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for wrath is on her whole crowd.
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13. The seller will certainly not return
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to what was sold
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as long as he and the buyer remain alive.
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For the vision concerning her whole crowd
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will not be revoked,
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and because of the iniquity of each one,
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none will preserve his life.
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14. They have blown the trumpet
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and prepared everything,
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but no one goes to war,
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for my wrath is on her whole crowd.
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15. The sword is on the outside;
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plague and famine are on the inside.
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Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,
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and famine and plague will devour
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whoever is in the city.
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16. The survivors among them will escape
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and live on the mountains.
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Like doves of the valley,
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all of them will moan,
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each over his own iniquity.
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17. All their hands will become weak,
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and all their knees will run with urine.
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18. They will put on sackcloth,
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and horror will overwhelm them.
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Shame will cover all their faces,
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and all their heads will be bald.
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19. They will throw their silver into the streets,
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and their gold will seem like something filthy.
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Their silver and gold will be unable to save them
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in the day of the Lord's wrath.
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They will not satisfy their appetites
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or fill their stomachs,
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for these were the stumbling blocks
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that brought about their iniquity.
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20. He appointed his beautiful ornaments for majesty,
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but they made their detestable images from them,
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their abhorrent things.
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Therefore, I have made these
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into something filthy to them.
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21. I will hand these things over
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to foreigners as plunder
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and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,
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and they will profane them.
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22. I will turn my face from them
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as they profane my treasured place.
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Violent men will enter it and profane it.
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23. Forge the chain,
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for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,
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and the city is filled with violence.
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24. So I will bring the most evil of nations
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to take possession of their houses.
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I will put an end to the pride of the strong,
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and their sacred places will be profaned.
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25. Anguish is coming!
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They will look for peace, but there will be none.
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26.
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Disaster after disaster will come,
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and there will be rumor after rumor.
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Then they will look for a vision from a prophet,
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but instruction will perish from the priests
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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 in grief;
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and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
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I will deal with them according to their own conduct,
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and I will judge them by their own standards.
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Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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