An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!
Parallel translations
- WEB An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.
- KJV An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
- 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!
- 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 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
- Ezek 7:3Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
- Ezek 7:10“‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.
- Jer 44:27Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.
- Ezek 21:25“‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
- Ezek 39:8Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about which I have spoken.
- 2 Pet 2:5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
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