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UST EZE Chapter 7

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7 Yahweh gave me another message. He said, 2 “Now, as for you, mortal human, here is what I, the Sovereign Yahweh, have to say to the inhabitants of the land of Israel:

The end is here! Yes, the end is imminent

for every single portion of the region. 3 You people of Israel, your demise is now imminent.

I will soon vent my anger against you.

I will execute the just sentence that befits your lifestyle

and hold you responsible for your disgusting and unacceptable behavior.

4 I will not have such compassion for you

that I relent from my judgments against you.

Instead, I will hold you responsible for your lifestyles,

and you will experience the just consequences that your disgusting and unacceptable behavior deserves.

Then, you will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am Yahweh!

5 Here is something else that I, the Sovereign Yahweh, have to say:

A calamity—an unparalleled calamity!

Pay attention! It is imminent.

6 Your demise is impending.

Yes, your final demise is impending!

It will soon happen to you, as if you woke it up!

Pay attention! It is imminent!

7 Catastrophe is looming upon you,

you who inhabit the territories of Israel.

The predetermined moment has arrived! It is nearly Yahweh’s chosen time for judgment!

At that time, the sound you hear on the mountains will not be the shouts of joyful celebration

—rather, it will be the panicked shouts of anguish!

8 Very soon, I will fully express my rage against you

and vent the anger I feel toward you.

I will execute the just sentence that befits your lifestyle

and hold you responsible for your disgusting and unacceptable behavior.

9 I will not have such compassion for you

that I relent from my judgments against you.

I will hold you responsible for your lifestyles,

and you will experience the just consequences that your disgusting and unacceptable behavior deserves.

Then, you will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like. I am Yahweh—the one who is injuring you!

Pay attention! It is nearly Yahweh’s chosen time for judgment!

Pay attention! It is about to happen!

Catastrophe is looming, as if it is about to burst forth!

Just like the branch of a tree that has begun to blossom in the spring,

your proud behavior is coming into fruition—it is budding!

11 Just like a burgeoning tree that produces a new branch,

their violent choices have matured into fully formed wicked lifestyles!

In the end, none of it will survive the coming destruction—

not their large population,

nor their excessive wealth,

nor their international renown!

12 Now is the moment!

Yahweh’s chosen time for judgment has arrived!

Customers should not rejoice,

nor should vendor grieve.

After all, Yahweh is furiously angry with the entire Israelite people!

13 This is because, as long as he remains alive,

the vendor will never return to the place where he used to sell his wares.

After all, Yahweh’s immutable proclamation pertains to everyone in Israel!

No one who commits injustices will be unable to succeed in staying alive.

14 Israel’s commanders will blow trumpets

to ready the army to fight in the war,

but no one will respond,

because Yahweh is furiously angry with the entire Israelite people!

15 The armed army of Israel’s enemies will station itself outside Jerusalem,

while infectious diseases and a fatal lack of food ravage the city from within.

So, Israel’s enemies will murder whoever happens to be outside the city in the fields,

and whoever happens to be inside the city will succumb to the fatal infectious diseases

as they starve to death in extreme hunger.

16 Those few who survive the destruction of Jerusalem

will flee to the mountains.

Their evil behavior will cause each of them to make wailing noises

that sound like the cries of pigeons who live in the mountain valleys.

17 Each survivor will be so afraid

that their hands will hang limp at their sides

and they will lose control of their bladders.

18 They will publicly mourn by wearing clothes made from rough cloth,

and they will feel such horror, as if it covered them like clothing.

The expression on every face will show that they feel ashamed,

and everyone will shave his head in his grief.

19 They will discard their silver coins into the streets

and regard their gold coins as if they were made ritually impure with menstrual blood.

None of their money will be able to deliver them

when Yahweh unleashes his raging anger against them.

No longer will they use their money to buy food to satisfy their appetites.

After all, having a lot of gold and silver has led them to do evil things!

20 The beautiful treasures that the priest stored in Yahweh’s temple

caused the people of Israel to become arrogant and proud.

They used the beautiful things that belonged to Yahweh

to craft disgusting and abhorrent ritual statues of their false gods.

So I, Yahweh, will cause them to regard my sacred treasure

as if it had become ritually impure with menstrual blood.

21 Yes, I will endow the treasures of my temple to strangers

as a reward for their military victory against the Israelite people.

I will give it to evil, wicked people who live in the nations surrounding Israel as the profit of their war.

As a result, these wicked strangers will pollute and ruin it by using it for purposes other than worshiping me.

22 Then, I, Yahweh, will no longer be present with the Israelite people.

I will look away as the warring soldiers of Israel’s enemies pollute and destroy my beloved temple.

Yes, bloodthirsty people will enter that sacred place in which I lived among my people,

and, as they do so, they will ruin and pollute it.

23 Forge a set of chains!

Israel’s enemies will require them

when they capture and indict the murderous Israelite people who occupy the region

and the homicidal people who live in Jerusalem!

24 So I will summon the armies of the most morally repulsive nations

to capture the houses of the Israelite people forcibly and live in them themselves.

I will humble those arrogant Israelite people who consider themselves strong,

as they watch their warring enemies ruin and pollute the sacred places in which they worshiped other gods.

25 Very soon, when Israel’s enemies terrify them,

they will desperately attempt to stop the violence,

but will be utterly unable to do so.

26 The people will suffer ceaseless catastrophes,

and rumors about other catastrophes will proliferate endlessly.

The Israelite people will beg Yahweh’s prophets to inform them of Yahweh’s desires and decisions,

but the priests will no longer teach people what Yahweh told his people in his instructions to Moses,

nor will the elderly give wise advice anymore.

27 Israel’s king will grieve,

and his son will feel such despair, as if he wore it like clothing;

everywhere in Israel, people will feel incapacitated by their horror.

I will do to the Israelite people what their lifestyles deserve;

I will legally evaluate and condemn them by their own legal standards.

Then, they will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am Yahweh!”

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