Ezekiel 7

Ezekiel 7:5

An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

That evil is come upon thee, which alone shall make a dispatch of thee: there will need no other to second it.

Ezekiel 7:7

The day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

The day of thy grievous trouble is actually and really come; which thou shalt find sensibly, to be no empty and vain sound of an echo among the mountains, but a true and feeling destruction.

Ezekiel 7:10

The rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

That rod of punishment, wherewith they shall be smitten, howsoever it come from Chaldea, and hath put forth thence, yet the root of it is from themselves, even from their own pride.

Ezekiel 7:11

Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

And from this root is grown up cruelty, and violence; and that violence hath shewed itself in open wickedness, and outrageous oppositions unto good; which shall bring upon them so perfect a destruction, as that none of them shall be left alive to bewail the dead.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

The time of this judgment is at hand, wherein all shall be inwrapped in one common calamity; so as there shall be no difference betwixt the condition of the buyer and the seller, for wrath is indifferently gone out upon all sorts.

Ezekiel 7:13

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

And, whereas in the ordinary sale of Israelitish lands, the seller is wont, in the year of Jubilee, to return to those possessions which he hath aliened; now it shall not be so: though he be then alive, yet there shall be no challenge or recovery of that, which he hath sold; for this captivity shall be universal, which is foretold in this vision, and that which shall not admit of any such return, as might restore this generation to their ancient inheritance; neither shall any wicked man have cause to encourage himself, in the vain confidence of his impunity for his sin.

Ezekiel 7:14

They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

And though the men of Israel train, and muster, and make great preparations of a warlike resistance, yet all this shall be in vain; for they shall never be able to stand in the day of battle, for my wrath fights against all the multitude of them.

Ezekiel 7:16

But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

And if any of them shall escape, as some shall escape, the sword and pestilence, yet their life shall be rather more miserable than death: for they shall be fain to hide their heads in the desert mountains, and shall be like the fearful doves that want shelter in the valleys; all of them protracting a woeful life, only to suffer and languish under the conscience of their own wickedness.

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

And, whereas they formerly trusted to their riches, now, they shall cast their silver and gold in the streets, as utterly unprofitable for their relief, &c. now, they shall well find, how little power this wealth of theirs hath to satisfy their souls, and to content their hearts; because it is that, which they have made an occasion of their sin, by their unjust and wicked confidence they have put in it.

Ezekiel 7:20

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

As for his beautiful and glorious temple, he placed it in great majesty among them, as that which might well be their best and greatest ornament; but they have notoriously profaned it, in setting up their abominable idols therein; therefore, have I forsaken both them and it, and give it over to the pollution and vastation of the heathen.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes.

Make thee a chain of iron; to signify the miserable bondage and captivity which is coming upon thy people, for the land is full of bloody crimes.

Ezekiel 7:26

Then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the laws shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

Then shall they be glad to inquire after the prophet of God, to know what the issue of things shall be; but, in a just punishment of their former neglect and security, God shall take away his gifts from their priests and prophets, so as they shall not be able to declare his will unto them, for their direction and preservation.