Ezekiel 7:25
in Ezekiel 7Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
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.
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This verse in Ezekiel 7
Commentary
6 notes on this verseDestruction 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.
This site's exposition
They will seek peace, but find none
on Ezekiel 7:25-27
The chapter ends with the failure of every guide. Prophet, priest and elder fail together, and king and prince are named in their own grief. The last line repeats the recognition formula, “Then they will know that I am the LORD,” so the oracle ends on God’s self-disclosure.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 25.) With impending distress, they will seek peace, and it will not be. This cannot possibly be reconciled with the Septuagint. For if propitiation comes, how will they seek peace and not find it? But he who has heard from the apostles will seek peace and not find it, for he has not kept it in his mind, nor has he made it rest, but driven away by wicked deeds, he cannot find it. Indeed, peace is that which surpasses all understanding, and which the victorious Savior, ascending to the Father, left to the apostles.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture
); for there shall come mischief upon mischief to ruin you, and rumour upon rumour to frighten you, like the waves in a storm, one upon the neck of another." Note, Sinners that are marked for ruin shall be prosecuted to it; for God will overcome when he judges.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens+odd-straight-quotes
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
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.
The words behind it
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קְפָ֖דָה־ | kefadah- | anguish | H7089 → | |
| בָ֑א | va' | it has come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| וּבִקְשׁ֥וּ | uvikshu | and they will seek | H1245 → | 225 times |
| שָׁל֖וֹם | shalom | peace | H7965 → | 236 times |
| וָאָֽיִן׃ | vaayin | and not | H369 → | 789 times |
קְפָ֖דָה־anguish
kefadah-H7089 →
בָ֑אit has come
va'H935 →2568 times
וּבִקְשׁ֥וּand they will seek
uvikshuH1245 →225 times
שָׁל֖וֹםpeace
shalomH7965 →236 times
וָאָֽיִן׃and not
vaayinH369 →789 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
Isaiah 57:21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
it leads to
- Isaiah 48:22
“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
- Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- 2 Kings 9:22
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?”
- Romans 3:16–17
ruin and misery lie in their wake,
- Isaiah 59:8
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.
- Isaiah 48:22
Through
Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 14:19
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…
- Amos 3:6
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?
- Micah 1:9
For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
- Jeremiah 14:19
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.