Ezekiel 7:3
in Ezekiel 7The 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.
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ASV
Now is the end upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.
KJV
Now 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.
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This verse in Ezekiel 7
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the word of the LORD came to me
on Ezekiel 7:1-4
The oracle opens with a sentence of doom: “The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.” The word “end” is struck again and again, and the unit closes with the recognition formula, “Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
This site's exposition
I will judge you according to your ways
The end is now upon Judah. The Lord will judge the people according to their ways and repay them for their abominations. Matthew Henry notes that the people had hoped for an end, and the end that came was the one Moses warned of in Deuteronomy 32.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 3, 4.) Now the end is upon you, and I will unleash my fury upon you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring all your abominations against you. And my eye will not spare you, and I will have no pity, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst, and you will know that I am the Lord.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
): I will send my anger upon thee. Observe, God is Lord of his anger; it does not break out but when he pleases, nor fasten upon any but as he directs it and gives it commission.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens
They had flattered themselves with hopes that they should shortly see an end of their troubles. "Yea," says God, " An end has come, but a miserable one, not the expected end " (which is promised to the pious remnant among them, Jer. xxix. 11 ); " it is the end, that end which you have been so often warned of, that last end which Moses wished you to consider ( Deut. xxxii.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens+odd-straight-quotes
Now is the end come upon thee,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
A kind of refrain, repeated in Eze 7:8-9, as the close of another stanza.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַתָּה֙ | ʾatah | now | H6258 → | 433 times |
| הַקֵּ֣ץ | haketz | the end | H7093 → | 67 times |
| עָלַ֔יִךְ | ʾalayikh | [is] on you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֤י | veshilachti | and I will send forth | H7971 → | 845 times |
| אַפִּי֙ | ʾapi | anger my | H639 → | 276 times |
| בָּ֔ךְ | bakh | on you | ||
| וּשְׁפַטְתִּ֖יךְ | ushefatikh | and I will judge you | H8199 → | 202 times |
| כִּדְרָכָ֑יִךְ | kidrakhayikh | according to ways your | H1870 → | 707 times |
| וְנָתַתִּ֣י | venatati | and I will requite | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| עָלַ֔יִךְ | ʾalayikh | to you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| אֵ֖ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| תּוֹעֲבֹתָֽיִךְ׃ | toavotayikh | abominations your | H8441 → | 117 times |
עַתָּה֙now
ʾatahH6258 →433 times
הַקֵּ֣ץthe end
haketzH7093 →67 times
עָלַ֔יִךְ[is] on you
ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times
וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֤יand I will send forth
veshilachtiH7971 →845 times
אַפִּי֙anger my
ʾapiH639 →276 times
בָּ֔ךְon you
bakh
וּשְׁפַטְתִּ֖יךְand I will judge you
ushefatikhH8199 →202 times
כִּדְרָכָ֑יִךְaccording to ways your
kidrakhayikhH1870 →707 times
וְנָתַתִּ֣יand I will requite
venatatiH5414 →2011 times
עָלַ֔יִךְto you
ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times
אֵ֖ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
תּוֹעֲבֹתָֽיִךְ׃abominations your
toavotayikhH8441 →117 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 18:30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
it leads to
- Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 18:21
But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Matthew 3:2
and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
- Luke 13:3
No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
- Ezekiel 14:6
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.
- Matthew 16:27
Through
Ezekiel 5:13And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD,…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I…
- Ezekiel 7:8
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.
- Ezekiel 36:5–6
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession…
- Ezekiel 20:21
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.