Ezekiel 7:26
in Ezekiel 7Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
KJV
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
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This verse in Ezekiel 7
Commentary
8 notes on this verseThen shall they seek a vision - Vision shall perish from the prophet, the law from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. Previously to great national judgments, God restrains the influences of his Spirit. His word is not accompanied with the usual unction; and the wise men of the land, the senators and celebrated statesmen, devise foolish schemes; and thus, in endeavoring to avert it, they hasten on the national ruin. How true is the saying, Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat. “Those whom God designs to destroy, he first infatuates.”
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.
This site's exposition
Disaster upon disaster will come
Bad news will follow bad news. The people will look to a prophet for a vision, but the priests will have no instruction and the elders no counsel. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown point to Jeremiah 18:18, where the people boasted that the priest's law would never perish.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 26.) Disturbance will come upon disturbance, and hearing upon hearing. LXX: Woe upon woe will be, and message upon message.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 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
Mischief shall come upon mischief,.... One misfortune or calamity after another; first one unhappy event, and then another, as was Job's case.
It is bad with a people when those that should be their counsellors know not how to consider within themselves, consult with one another, or counsel them. Since they had animated and encouraged one another to sin, God would dispirit and dishearten them all, so that they should not be able to make head against the judgments of God that were breaking in upon them.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
38:14). law shall perish--fulfilled (Eze 20:1, 3; La 2:9; compare Am 8:11); God will thus set aside the idle boast, "The law shall not perish from the priest" (Jer 18:18). ancients--the ecclesiastical rulers of the people.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens
The words behind it
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֹוָ֤ה | hovah | disaster | H1943 → | |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | to | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הֹוָה֙ | hovah | disaster | H1943 → | |
| תָּב֔וֹא | tavo' | it will come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| וּשְׁמֻעָ֥ה | ushemuah | and report | H8052 → | 27 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| שְׁמוּעָ֖ה | shemuah | report | H8052 → | 27 times |
| תִּֽהְיֶ֑ה | tihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| וּבִקְשׁ֤וּ | uvikshu | and they will seek | H1245 → | 225 times |
| חָזוֹן֙ | chazon | a vision | H2377 → | 35 times |
| מִנָּבִ֔יא | minavi' | from a prophet | H5030 → | 314 times |
| וְתוֹרָה֙ | vetorah | and instruction | H8451 → | 219 times |
| תֹּאבַ֣ד | tovad | it will be lost | H6 → | 184 times |
| מִכֹּהֵ֔ן | mikohen | from [the] priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| וְעֵצָ֖ה | veetzah | and counsel | H6098 → | |
| מִזְּקֵנִֽים׃ | mizekenim | from elders | H2205 → | 178 times |
הֹוָ֤הdisaster
hovahH1943 →
עַל־to
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הֹוָה֙disaster
hovahH1943 →
תָּב֔וֹאit will come
tavo'H935 →2568 times
וּשְׁמֻעָ֥הand report
ushemuahH8052 →27 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
שְׁמוּעָ֖הreport
shemuahH8052 →27 times
תִּֽהְיֶ֑הit will be
tihyehH1961 →3559 times
וּבִקְשׁ֤וּand they will seek
uvikshuH1245 →225 times
חָזוֹן֙a vision
chazonH2377 →35 times
מִנָּבִ֔יאfrom a prophet
minavi'H5030 →314 times
וְתוֹרָה֙and instruction
vetorahH8451 →219 times
תֹּאבַ֣דit will be lost
tovadH6 →184 times
מִכֹּהֵ֔ןfrom [the] priest
mikohenH3548 →750 times
וְעֵצָ֖הand counsel
veetzahH6098 →
מִזְּקֵנִֽים׃from elders
mizekenimH2205 →178 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
Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us…
it leads to
- Psalms 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 11:19
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from…
- Psalms 52:2
Through
Psalms 74:9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
it leads to
- Amos 8:11
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words…
- Amos 8:11
Through
Ezekiel 14:1Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 8:1
In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord…
- 2 Kings 6:32
Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this…
- Ezekiel 8:1
Through
Jeremiah 4:20Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
it leads to
- Psalms 42:7
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- Psalms 42:7
Through
Micah 3:6Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
it leads to
- Isaiah 8:20–22
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- Isaiah 8:20–22
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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
