Ezekielchapter 7

A.The end has come upon the four cornersvv. 1-9

1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 “O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. 3 The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations. 4 I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’ 5 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming! 6 The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come! 7 Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy. 8 Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations. 9 I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

B.The rod has budded and the buyer has no joyvv. 10-13

10 Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed. 11 Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value. 12 The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude. 13 The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.

C.The trumpet blows and nobody goes to battlevv. 14-18

14 They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude. 15 The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague. 16 The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity. 17 Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water. 18 They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

D.Silver thrown in the streets, the treasure profanedvv. 19-22

19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity. 20 His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them. 21 And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them. 22 I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

E.Make the chain: king mourns, prophet failsvv. 23-27

23 Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence. 24 So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned. 25 Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none. 26 Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders. 27 The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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Chapter summary

A dirge of finality: 'An end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land.' The time is come, the day of tumult is near, and Jehovah's eye will not spare.

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A dirge of finality: 'An end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land.' The time is come, the day of tumult is near, and Jehovah's eye will not spare. The chapter's most memorable image is the sudden worthlessness of wealth in the day of wrath, silver cast into the streets, gold treated as an unclean thing, unable to satisfy the soul or fill the belly, because it was the stumblingblock of their iniquity. The sword is without, pestilence and famine within; the king mourns, the prince is clothed with desolation. Make the chain: the land is full of bloody crimes and the city full of violence.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Ezekiel — Ezekiel overview

A. 1–9 The end has come upon the four corners
B. 10–13 The rod has budded and the buyer has no joy
C. 14–18 The trumpet blows and nobody goes to battle
D. 19–22 Silver thrown in the streets, the treasure profaned
E. 23–27 Make the chain: king mourns, prophet fails

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Ezekiel 75 verses
- Ezekiel 7:3The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 7:4I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ezekiel 7:8Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 7:10Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.
- Ezekiel 7:23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
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Ezekiel 54 verses
- Ezekiel 5:9Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.
- Ezekiel 5:11Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
- Ezekiel 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
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Isaiah 593 verses
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- Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
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Amos 82 verses
- Amos 8:2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
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- Ezekiel 11:21But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
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Nahum 12 verses
- Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
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Ezekiel 92 verses
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Ezekiel 142 verses
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- Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.