Ezekiel 7:11
in Ezekiel 7Their 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.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them.
KJV
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
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This verse in Ezekiel 7
Commentary
10 notes on this verseViolence is risen, up into a rod of wickedness - The prophet continues his metaphor: “Pride has budded.” - And what has it brought forth? Violence and iniquity. To meet these, the rod of God cometh. There is such a vast rapidity of succession in the ideas of the prophet that he cannot wait to find language to clothe each. Hence we have broken sentences; and, consequently, obscurity. Something must be supplied to get the sense, and most critics alter words in the text. Houbigant, who rarely acknowledges himself to be puzzled, appears here completely nonplussed.
This site's exposition
the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed
on Ezekiel 7:10-12
The image turns: “the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed,” the nation’s pride. The same word bears the opposite weight: “Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness.” “Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn,” since no one will keep what changes hands.
This site's exposition
Their violence has grown into a rod
The people's violence has become a rod to punish them. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the violence as the violent enemy rising against Judah to punish its wickedness. Nothing will remain of the people, their wealth or anything of value.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Vers. 10, 11.) Behold the day, behold it comes, the contraction has gone forth: the rod has blossomed, pride has sprouted. Iniquity has risen in the rod of wickedness, not from them, and not from the people, nor from their noise: and there will be no rest for them.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
None - They shall be utterly wasted for their sins. Wailing - The living shall not bewail their dead friends, because they shall judge the dead in a better case than the living.
): None of their multitude, that is, of the rabble, whom they set on to do mischief, and to countenance them in doing it, to cry, "Crucify, crucify," when they were resolved on the destruction of any, none of them shall remain, nor any of theirs; their families shall all be destroyed, and neither root nor branch left them.
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Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness,....
I saw the place of judgment, that wickedness was there, Eccl. iii. Whatever are the fruits of God's judgments, it is certain that our sin is the root of them. There is no escape from these judgments nor fence against them, for they shall be universal and shall bear down all before them, without remedy.
2 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Though threatened judgments may be long deferred, yet they shall not be dropped; the time for executing them will come. Though God's patience may put them off, nothing but man's sincere repentance and reformation will put them by.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Violence (that is, the violent foe) is risen up as a rod of (that is, to punish the Jews') wickedness (Zec 5:8). theirs--their possessions, or all that belongs to them, whether children or goods. GROTIUS translates from a different Hebrew root, "their nobles," literally, "their tumultuous trains" (Margin) which usually escorted the nobles.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
The violence has arisen, etc. The violence in your hands has risen upon you as a staff of wickedness to destroy you.
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
neither will the seller mourn Although one who sells his field usually grieves, he will not grieve because you are destined to go into exile.
Behold, the day of punishment has come, behold, it comes; the kingdom has been revealed, the rule has sprung up, the wicked one has appeared.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֶחָמָ֥ס׀ | hechamas | <the> violence | H2555 → | 60 times |
| קָ֖ם | kam | it has arisen | H6965 → | 628 times |
| לְמַטֵּה־ | lemateh- | to a rod of | H4294 → | 252 times |
| רֶ֑שַׁע | resha' | wickedness | H7562 → | 30 times |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| מֵהֶ֞ם | mehem | any of them | ||
| וְלֹ֧א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| מֵהֲמוֹנָ֛ם | mehamonam | any of multitude their | H1995 → | 83 times |
| וְלֹ֥א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| מֶהֱמֵהֶ֖ם | mehemehem | any of noise their | H1991 → | |
| וְלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| נֹ֥הַּ | noah | distinction | H5089 → | |
| בָּהֶֽם׃ | bahem | [is] among them |
הֶחָמָ֥ס׀<the> violence
hechamasH2555 →60 times
קָ֖םit has arisen
kamH6965 →628 times
לְמַטֵּה־to a rod of
lemateh-H4294 →252 times
רֶ֑שַׁעwickedness
resha'H7562 →30 times
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
מֵהֶ֞םany of them
mehem
וְלֹ֧אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
מֵהֲמוֹנָ֛םany of multitude their
mehamonamH1995 →83 times
וְלֹ֥אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
מֶהֱמֵהֶ֖םany of noise their
mehemehemH1991 →
וְלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
נֹ֥הַּdistinction
noahH5089 →
בָּהֶֽם׃[is] among them
bahem
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
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He…
it leads to
- Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger.…
- Ezekiel 7:19
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…
- Proverbs 11:4
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Zephaniah 1:2–3
“I will completely sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
- Zephaniah 1:15
That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
- Zephaniah 3:8
Through
Jeremiah 6:7As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 20:8
For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
- Ezekiel 7:23
Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
- Jeremiah 20:8
Through
Ezekiel 7:23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 27:2
This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
- Jeremiah 27:2
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.