Ezekiel 7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Ezekiel 7Impending Disaster

1The word of the Lord came to me:

2 has come to you,

O inhabitant of the land.

The time has come; the day is near—

of tumult, not of reveling on the mountains.

8 has gone out.

The rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

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12The time has come; the day draws near;

let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn,

for wrath is upon all their multitude.

13For the sellers shall not return to what has been sold as long as they remain alive. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not be revoked. Because of their iniquity, they cannot maintain their lives.

14They have blown the horn and made everything ready,

but no one goes to battle,

for my wrath is upon all their multitude.

15 beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them.

21 place;

the violent shall enter it;

they shall profane it.

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For the land is full of bloody crimes;

the city is full of violence.

24 Ezek 21.31; 24.21; 33.28 I will bring the worst of the nations

to take possession of their houses.

I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong,

and their holy places shall be profaned.

25 Ezek 13.10, 16 When anguish comes, they will seek peace,

but there shall be none.

26 Deut 32.23; Ps 74.9; Jer 4.20; Ezek 20.1, 3; 21.7 Disaster comes upon disaster;

rumor follows rumor;

they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet;

instruction shall perish from the priest

and counsel from the elders.

27 vv 3, 4, 8; Ps 35.26; Ezek 18.20; 26.16The king shall mourn,

the prince shall be wrapped in despair,

and the hands of the people of the land shall tremble.

According to their way I will deal with them;

according to their own judgments I will judge them.

And they shall know that I am the Lord.