The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel

 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An ^aend, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will ^ajudge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

 4 And mine eye shall not ^aspare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will ^brecompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall ^cknow that I am the Lord.

 5 Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an ^aonly evil, behold, is ^bcome.

 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

 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.

 8 Now will I shortly pour out my ^afury 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.

 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.

 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

 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 ^awailing for them.

 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the ^abuyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

 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.

 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.

 15 The ^asword 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.

 16 ¶But they that ^aescape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them ^bmourning, every one for his iniquity.

 17 All ^ahands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

 18 They shall also gird themselves with ^asackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and ^bshame shall be upon all faces, and ^cbaldness upon all their heads.

 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 ^astumblingblock of their ^biniquity.

 20 ¶As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the ^aimages of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

 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 ^apollute it.

 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall ^apollute my secret ^bplace: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

 23 ¶Make a chain: for the land is full of ^abloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

 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.

 25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

 26 ^aMischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the ^blaw shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ^cancients.

 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 ^aknow that I am the Lord.