7:1  Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

7:2  "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel, 'An end! The end will come on the four corners of the land.

7:3  'Now the end has come 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.

7:4  'For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will appear among you; then you will know Me as the LORD!'

7:5  "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'A disaster, unique disaster, behold it will come!

7:6  'An end will come; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!

7:7  'Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day has drawn near--tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

7:8  'Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations.

7:9  'My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations remain in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting.

7:10  'Behold, the day! Behold, it will come! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

7:11   11'Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them.

7:12  'The time has come, the day has arrived Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath falls against all their multitude.

7:13  'Indeed, the seller will not regain what he sold as long as they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not avert, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity.

7:14  'They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to the battle, for My wrath I direct against all their multitude.

7:15  'The sword appears outside and the plague and the famine remain within. He who walks in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city.

7:16  'Even when their survivors escape, they will flee to the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each over his own iniquity.

7:17  'All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.

7:18  'They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will cover all faces and baldness on all their heads.

7:19  'They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not have the capability of delivering them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

7:20  'They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

7:21  'I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.

7:22  'I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.

7:23  ' Make the chain, for the land has filled with bloody crimes and the city fills with violence.

7:24  'Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses I will also make the pride of the strong ones cease, and their holy places will become profaned.

7:25  'When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but none will come.

7:26  ' Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will add to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will become lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.

7:27  'The king will mourn, the prince will clothe himself with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know Me as the LORD.'"