The Hour of Doom

1And came to be the word of YHWH to me, saying: 2“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord YHWH to the land of Israel,

‘An end has come,

the end upon the four corners of the land!

3Now the end is upon you—

and I will send My nose against you,

and I will judge you according to your ways,

and I will recompense upon you all your abominations!

4And My eye will not have pity on you,

and I will not have pity;

for your ways I will recompense against you,

and for your abominations that are in your midst.

And you⁺ will know that I am YHWH.’

5Thus says the Lord YHWH:

‘Disaster! A unique disaster!†

Behold, it is coming!

6An end has come;

the end has come!

It has roused itself against you.

Behold, it is coming.

7Doom has come to you,

O dweller of the land;

the time has come,

the day is near—

of tumult,

and not of rejoicing in the mountains!

8Now soon I will pour out My fury upon you,

and will complete My anger My anger;

and I will judge you according to your ways,

and I will recompense upon you for all your abominations.

9And My eye will not have pity,

and I will not have pity;

according to your ways I will recompense upon you,

and your abominations will be in your midst.

And you⁺ will know that I am YHWH,

the One striking.

10Behold, the day!

Behold, it is coming!

The doom has gone forth,

the rod has blossomed,

the arrogance has budded.

11Violence has risen up

into a rod of wickedness—

none of them,

and none of their multitude,

and none of their wealth,

and nothing of eminence among them.

12The time has come,

the day has drawn near!

Let the buyer not rejoice,

and let the seller not mourn;

for wrath is upon all their multitude.

13For the one selling will not return to what has been sold

while they live their life;

for the vision is to the whole multitude,

and it will not turn back;

and a man cannot by his iniquity

strengthen his life.

The Desolation of Israel

14They have blown on the trumpet,

and made ready everything;

and there is not one going to the battle,

for My wrath is against all their multitude.

15The sword is is outside,

and pestilence and famine inside the house.

The one who is in the field will die by the sword,

and the one who is in the city,

famine and pestilence will devour him.

16And their fugatives will escape,

and they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys,

all of them mourning,

each one for his iniquity.

17Every hand will go limp,

and every knee will go as waters.

18And they will be girded with sackcloth,

and shuddering will cover them;

and on every face is shame,

and on all their heads baldness.

19Their silver they will throw into the streets,

and their gold will become like refuse;

their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them

on the day of the wrath of YHWH.

Their souls they cannot satisfy,

and their stomachs they cannot fill,

for a stumbling block

their iniquity has become.

20And the beauty of His ornament,

in majesty he set it,

and the images of their abominations,

their detestable things they made with it.

Upon thus

I have made it for them like refuse.

21And I will give it into the hands

of strangers as plunder,

and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,

and they will defile it.

22And I will turn away My face from them,

and they will defile My treasured place—

and robbers will come into it,

and they will defile it!

23Make a chain!

For the land is filled with with the judgment of blood,

and the city is full of violence.

24And I will bring the evil of the nations,

and they will possess their houses;

and I will cause to cease the pride of the strong,

and their holy places will be defiled.

25Anguish comes,

and they will seek peace and there is none.

26Disaster upon disaster will come,

and rumor will be upon rumor;

and they will seek a vision from a prophet,

and the law will perish from the priest,

and counsel from the elders.

27The king will mourn,

and the prince will be clothed with desolation,

and the hands of the people of the land will tremble;

according to their own way I will deal with them,

and by their own judgment I will judge them;

and they will know that I am YHWH.’”