| 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 recompense1 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 for2 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 sounding3 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 according4 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:5 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 the7 seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they6 were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity8 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 weak9 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:10 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 is11 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 far12 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 robbers13 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 holy14 places shall be defiled.
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| 25 Destruction15 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 according16 to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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