1: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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2: Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land
of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
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3:
Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon
thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense
upon thee all thine abominations. |
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4: And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity:
but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall
be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. |
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5: Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is
come. |
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6: An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold,
it is come. |
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7: The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the
land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding
again of the mountains. |
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8: Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish
mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and
will recompense thee for all thine abominations. |
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9: And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in
the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
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10: Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone
forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. |
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11: Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them
shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither
shall there be wailing for them. |
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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. |
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13: For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole
multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen
himself in the iniquity of his life. |
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14: They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none
goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
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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. |
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16: But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on
the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one
for his iniquity. |
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17: All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water. |
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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. |
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19: They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to
deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy
their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock
of their iniquity. |
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20: As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but
they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable
things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. |
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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 pollute
it. |
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22: My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my
secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. |
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23: Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the
city is full of violence. |
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24: Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they
shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to
cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. |
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25: Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there
shall be none. |
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26: Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall
perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. |
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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 the LORD. |