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Punishment for Wickedness Foretold
1 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying, 2 "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD F64 to the land of Israel, `An end! R162 The end is coming on the four corners of the land. 3 `Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you. 4 `For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring R163 your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know R164 that I am the LORD!'
5 "Thus says the Lord GOD F65 , `A disaster, R165 unique disaster, behold it is coming! 6 `An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened R166 against you; behold, it has come! 7 `Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time R167 has come, the day R168 is near--tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains. 8 `Now I will shortly pour R169 out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge R170 you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations. 9 `My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay F66 you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting.
10 `Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod R171 has budded, arrogance has blossomed. 11 `Violence has F67 grown into a rod of wickedness. R172 None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, R173 nor anything eminent among them. 12 `The time R174 has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer R175 rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath R176 is against all their multitude. 13 `Indeed, the seller will not regain R177F68 what F69 he sold as long as they F70both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not be F71 averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity.
14 `They have blown R178 the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their F72 multitude. 15 `The sword R179 is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city. 16 `Even when their survivors escape, R180 they will be on the mountains like doves R181 of the valleys, all of them mourning, R182F73 each over his own iniquity. 17 `All hands R183 will hang limp and all knees will become F74like water. 18 `They will gird R184 themselves with sackcloth and shuddering R185 will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness R186 on all their heads. 19 `They will fling R187 their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver R188 and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite F75 nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.
The Temple Profaned
20 `They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they R189 made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them. 21 `I will give it into the hands of the foreigners R190 as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it. 22 `I will also turn My face R191 from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.
23 `Make R192 the chain, for the land is full of bloody R193F76 crimes and the city is full R194 of violence. 24 `Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, R195 and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride R196 of the strong ones cease, and their holy R197 places will be profaned. 25 `When anguish comes, they will seek peace, R198 but there will be none. 26 `Disaster R199 will come upon disaster and rumor R200 will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision R201 from a prophet, but the law R202 will be lost from the priest and counsel R203 from the elders. 27 `The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed R204 with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. F77 According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the LORD.' "
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