An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
Parallel translations
- WEB An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.
- BSB The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!
- NKJV An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
- NASB An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!
- NLT The end has come. It has finally arrived. Your final doom is waiting!
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Quick answer
The end has come and awakens against the people. Judgment is roused and unstoppable.
Overview
With repeated emphasis the Lord proclaims that the end has come and is now stirring against the land. The personified end 'awakes,' as if rising to act, conveying inevitability and immediacy. The drumbeat of 'the end has come' presses home that God's patience has reached its limit and the decreed day cannot be postponed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Zech 13:7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
- Ezek 7:3Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
- Ezek 7:10Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
- Jer 44:27Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
- Ezek 21:25And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
- Ezek 39:8Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
- 2 Pet 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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