And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Now you, son of man, thus says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel, An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Now the end is upon you. And I will send My anger against you and will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring upon you all your abominations.

And My eye will not pity you, nor will I spare; but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will know that I am Jehovah.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Ill, a unique ill! It has now come.

An end is coming; the end is coming! It has awakened against you; it has now come.

Doom has come to you, you who inhabit the land; the time has come; the day is near — tumult and not the joyful shout on the mountains.

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

My eye will not pity, nor will I spare. I will render to you according to your ways, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will know that it is I, Jehovah, who strikes.

Indeed the day — it has now come. Doom has gone forth. The rod has blossomed; pride has budded;

Violence has risen up as a rod of wickedness. Nothing of them remains: nothing of their multitude, nothing of their wealth, and no eminence among them.

The time has come; the day has drawn near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.

For the seller will not return to what he has sold, while they live among the living; for the vision, which regards all  ¹the land's multitude, will not be turned; not one of them will assure his life by his iniquity.

They have blown the trumpet and have made everything ready, but no one goes to the battle; for My wrath is against all the land's multitude.

The sword is outside, and pestilence and famine are inside: He who is in the field will die by the sword, and he who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.

And those of them who escape will escape, and they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his iniquity.

All hands will drop, and all knees will melt into water.

And they will gird themselves with sackcloth, and shuddering will cover them; and on all their faces there will be shame, and baldness on all their heads.

Their silver will they cast into the streets, and their gold will be an impurity; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of Jehovah's overflowing wrath. They cannot satisfy their souls nor fill their inward parts, for their iniquity has become a stumbling block to them.

And they turned the beauty of His ornaments into pride; and they made the images of their abominations, of their detestable things, with it; therefore I make it an impurity to them.

And I will give it into the hands of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.

I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; indeed the robbers will enter it and profane it.

Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses; and I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places will be profaned.

Anguish comes; and they seek peace, but there is none.

Disaster upon disaster will come, and there will be rumor upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their ways I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them; and they will know that I am Jehovah.

And in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, as I sat in my house and the elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell upon me there.

Then I looked, and there was a likeness like the appearance of  ¹fire: from His loins and downward, the appearance of fire; and from His loins and upward something like the appearance of brightness, like the sight of  ²electrum.

And He stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and heaven and brought me to Jerusalem in the visions of God, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where the seat of the idol of  ¹jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

And the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the appearance that I saw in the plain.

Then He said to me, Son of man, Lift up your eyes now toward the north. Thus I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and there, toward the north at the altar gate, was this idol of jealousy at the entry.

And He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, that I should be far from My sanctuary? But you will yet see greater abominations.

Then He brought me to the entrance of the court; and I looked, and there was a hole in the wall.

And He said to me, Son of man, dig now through the wall. So I dug through the wall, and there was now an entrance.

And He said to me, Go and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here.

Thus I entered and looked, and there were every form of creeping thing and detestable beast and all the idols of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

And standing before them were seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each with his censer in his hand and the smell of the incense cloud went up.

And He said to me, Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each in the room of his engraved images? For they say, Jehovah does not see us; Jehovah has forsaken the land.

And He said to me, You will yet again see greater abominations that they are committing.

Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Jehovah that was toward the north; and women weeping for  ¹Tammuz were sitting there.

And He said to me, Do you see, son of man? You will yet again see greater abominations than these.

Then He brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah; and there, at the entrance of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.

And He said to me, Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they also fill the land with violence and again and again provoke Me to anger? And now they are putting the branch to their nose.

Therefore I will also deal with them in wrath. My eye will not pity, nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.

Then He cried out in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Draw near, you who  ¹oversee the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.

And then six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and there was one man among them, clothed in linen, with a scribe's inkhorn by his side. And they went and stood beside the bronze altar.

And the glory of the God of Israel  ¹went up from the cherub on which it had been to the threshold of the house. And He called out to the man clothed in linen, who had the scribe's inkhorn by his side.

And Jehovah said to him, Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a  ¹mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan because of all the abominations that are committed in its midst.

And to the others He said in my hearing, Pass through the city behind him and strike; do not let your eye pity, and do not spare.

Utterly slay the old man and the young man, and the maiden, the little child, and the women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark. And you shall begin at My sanctuary. Thus they began with the elders who were before the house.

And He said to them, Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain; go forth. And they went forth and struck the people in the city.

And as they were striking them and I was left alone, I fell on my face, and I cried out and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Are You destroying the whole remnant of Israel in Your pouring out of Your wrath upon Jerusalem?

And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; and the land is full of blood, and the city, full of perverted justice; for they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land, and Jehovah does not see.

But as for Me, My eye will not pity, nor will I spare; I will bring their ways upon their head.

And the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, brought back a report, saying, I have done as You have commanded me.