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Ezekiel 7:5

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in Ezekiel 7

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 5, 6) This is what the Lord God says: A single affliction, behold, is coming: the end is coming, the end is coming. He has awakened against you, behold, he is coming. Constriction is coming upon you, you who dwell in the land. These are not found in the Septuagint, but they have been added in their edition of Theodotion's translation under asterisks. However, we will follow the Hebrew.

This site's exposition

An unprecedented disaster

on Ezekiel 7:5-7

The oracle comes in a second wave, “An unprecedented disaster”, the Hebrew doubling the word for evil. Verses 6 and 7 mass short cries, repeating “The end has come”. On the hills the sound is reversed: “there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

Thus saith the Lord God,.... Here should be a stop, a colon, requiring attention to what follows, it being something awful and terrible: an evil, an only evil, behold, it cometh; meaning the destruction of the city and temple; which, though but one, was such an one as was never known before nor was there any like it. The Targum is, "evil after evil, lo, it cometh;'' one evil after another; when one evil is gone, another comes, as in Eze 7:26. The Syriac version is, "behold, evil for evil comes"; the evil of punishment for the evil of sin.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

An evil, an only evil - The great, the sovereign, the last exterminating evil, is come: the sword, the pestilence, the famine, and the captivity. Many MSS. read אחר achar, after. So evil cometh after evil; one instantly succeeds another.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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.
1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

An only evil - An evil singular and remarkable above all others.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • כֹּ֥הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֖רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

  • רָעָ֛הcalamity

    raahH7451 →662 times

  • אַחַ֥תone

    ʾachatH259 →971 times

  • רָעָ֖הcalamity

    raahH7451 →662 times

  • הִנֵּ֥הthere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • בָאָֽה׃[it is] coming

    vaahH935 →2568 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 21:12–13this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.3 worksNahum 1:9Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.3 worksEzekiel 5:9Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.3 worksAmos 3:2“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”2 worksDaniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.2 worksMatthew 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 11:11Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.2 works

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

    Nahum 1:9

    Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 21:11

      Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

    • Proverbs 21:30

      There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

    • Psalms 33:10

      The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.

    • 2 Corinthians 10:5

      We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

    • Psalms 2:1–4

      Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

  • Through

    Amos 3:2

    “Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 7:6

      For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…

    • Exodus 19:5–6

      Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

    • Deuteronomy 10:15

      Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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.

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