Ezekiel 7:25
Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
BSB
ASV
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
KJV
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Destruction cometh,.... Upon the temple, city, nation, and people; the king of Babylon, the destroyer of the Gentiles, and now of the Jews, being on his way, Jer 4:7; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none; that is, the Jews will seek to make peace with the Chaldeans; but the latter will not hearken to them, but go on with the siege, till they have taken the city, put part to the sword, and carried the other captive.
They shall seek peace - They see now that their ceasing to pay the tribute to the king of Babylon has brought the Chaldeans against them; and now they sue for peace in vain. He will not hear: he is resolved on their destruction.
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Isaiah 57:21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
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“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
ruin and misery lie in their wake,
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
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Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
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Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.