Ezekiel 7:6
in Ezekiel 7The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee; behold, it cometh.
KJV
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
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This verse in Ezekiel 7
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Verse 5, 6) This is what the Lord God says: A single affliction, behold, is coming: the end is coming, the end is coming. He has awakened against you, behold, he is coming. Constriction is coming upon you, you who dwell in the land. These are not found in the Septuagint, but they have been added in their edition of Theodotion's translation under asterisks. However, we will follow the Hebrew.
This site's exposition
An unprecedented disaster
on Ezekiel 7:5-7
The oracle comes in a second wave, “An unprecedented disaster”, the Hebrew doubling the word for evil. Verses 6 and 7 mass short cries, repeating “The end has come”. On the hills the sound is reversed: “there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.”
This site's exposition
It has roused itself against you
The end is pictured as a sleeper who has woken and roused itself against the people. Adam Clarke points to a play on sounds in the Hebrew, where kets, the end, echoes yakats, to wake from sleep. The repeated cry makes the ruin close at hand.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
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
An end - When the end is come upon the wicked world, then an only evil comes upon it. The sorest of temporal judgments have their allays; but the torments of the damned are an evil, an only evil.
An end is come, the end is come,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee - This is similar to the second verse; but there is a paronomasia, or play upon letters and words, which is worthy of note. קץ בא בא הקץ הקץ אליך kets ba, ba hakkets, hekits elayich. קצה katsah signifies to make an end or extremity, by cutting off something, and יקץ yakats signifies to awake from sleep: hence קיץ kits, the summer, as the earth and its productions seem then to awake from the sleep of winter.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The end is come: it watcheth for thee - The end (personified) so long slumbering now awakes and comes upon thee.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קֵ֣ץ | ketz | an end | H7093 → | 67 times |
| בָּ֔א | ba' | it has come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| בָּ֥א | ba' | it has come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| הַקֵּ֖ץ | haketz | the end | H7093 → | 67 times |
| הֵקִ֣יץ | hekitz | it has awakened | H6974 → | |
| אֵלָ֑יִךְ | ʾelayikh | against you | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הִנֵּ֖ה | hineh | there! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| בָּאָֽה׃ | baah | [it is] coming | H935 → | 2568 times |
קֵ֣ץan end
ketzH7093 →67 times
בָּ֔אit has come
ba'H935 →2568 times
בָּ֥אit has come
ba'H935 →2568 times
הַקֵּ֖ץthe end
haketzH7093 →67 times
הֵקִ֣יץit has awakened
hekitzH6974 →
אֵלָ֑יִךְagainst you
ʾelayikhH413 →5510 times
הִנֵּ֖הthere!
hinehH2009 →843 times
בָּאָֽה׃[it is] coming
baahH935 →2568 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
Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against…
it leads to
- Mark 14:27
Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
- Matthew 26:31
Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be…
- John 16:32
“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father…
- Isaiah 40:11
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
- Mark 14:50
Then everyone deserted Him and fled.
- Mark 14:27
Through
2 Peter 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
it leads to
- Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes…
- 2 Peter 3:6
through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
- Jude 1:14–15
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
- Hebrews 11:7
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.