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Ezekiel 7:26

in Ezekiel 7

Disaster 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.

BSB

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.

This verse in Ezekiel 7

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Then 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

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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 words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 18:18

    Then 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…

  • Through

    Psalms 74:9

    There 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…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 14:1

    Then 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…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 4:20

    Disaster 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.

  • Through

    Micah 3:6

    Therefore 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.

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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.