English Standard Version

Ezekiel 7:12-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.

13. For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.

14. “They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.

15. The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.

16. And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.

17. All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.

18. They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

19. They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

20. His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.