Ezekiel 7:5 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 7:5

Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

KJV

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ASV

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.

WEB

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster— behold, it is coming!

YLT

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come.

DBT

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil! behold, it is come.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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15 verses on the floor

Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Ezekiel 12:23
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
Joel 2:1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2 Kings 21:12–13
Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
Nahum 1:9
What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

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They had flattered themselves with hopes that they should shortly see an end of their troubles. "Yea," says God, " An end has come, but a miserable one, not the expected end " (which is promised to the pious remnant among them, Jer. xxix. 11 ); " it is the end, that end which you have been so often warned of, that last end which Moses wished you to consider ( Deut. xxxii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is to the impenitent an evil, an only evil; it hardens their hearts and irritates their corruptions, whereas there were those to whom it was sanctified by the grace of God and made a means of much good; they were sent into Babylon for their good, Jer. xxiv. The wicked have the dregs of that cup to drink which to the righteous is full of mixtures of mercy, Ps. lxxv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

An evil, an only evil--a peculiar calamity such as was never before; unparalleled. The abruptness of the style and the repetitions express the agitation of the prophet's mind in foreseeing these calamities.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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