For thus says the Lord; Behold, the end has come.

the inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day has drawn near, not with tumult, nor with pangs.

But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened; so that from now on even those having wives should be as though they had none,

and those using this world as not using it up. For the form of this world is passing away.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near.

Do not murmur against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Behold, the Judge stands before the doors!

Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare its surface, and scatter them that dwell therein.

And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.

Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallom your father's brother is coming to you, saying, Buy my field that is in Anathoth: for you [have] the right of redemption, to buy [it].

So Hanamel the son of Shallom my father's brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for you [have] a right to buy it, and you are the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.

Behold, a multitude has come against the city, to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine. As You have spoken, so has it happened.

And You have said to me, Buy the field for money; and I wrote a book, and sealed [it], and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city was given into the hands of the Chaldeans.

For the buyer shall never again return to the seller, neither shall a man cleave with the eye [of hope] to his life.

Sound the trumpet, and pass sentence on all together.

Thus says the Lord: Clap with [your] hand, and stamp with [your] foot and say, Aha, aha! For all the abominations of the house of Israel; they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine.

He that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine; and I will accomplish My anger upon them.

Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord; and there has been a multitude of dead [bodies], because of hunger and of thirst for water.

Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing; and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down [into it].