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Ezekiel 7:5
5This is what the Lord God says: Look, one disaster after another is coming!
Ezekiel 7:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
- New International Version (NIV)“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Disaster! Unheard-of disaster! See, it comes!
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Thus says the Lord God: ‘A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come!
Context of Ezekiel 7:5
3The end is now upon you; I will send my anger against you and judge you according to your ways. I will punish you for all your detestable practices. 4I will not look on you with pity or spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for your detestable practices within you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” This is what the Lord God says: Look, one disaster after another is coming! 6An end has come; the end has come! It has awakened against you. Look, it is coming! 7Doom has come on you, inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near. There will be panic on the mountains and not celebration.
Read all of Ezekiel 7Ezekiel 7:5 word by word
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה רָעָ֛ה אַחַ֥ת רָעָ֖ה הִנֵּ֥ה בָאָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 7:5
- Ezekiel 5:9Because of all your detestable practices, I will do to you what I have never done before and what I will never do again.
- 2 Kings 21:12this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder.
- Daniel 9:12He has carried out his words that he spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing on us a disaster that is so great that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.
- Amos 3:2I have known only you out of all the clans of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
- Nahum 1:9Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will bring it to complete destruction; oppression will not rise up a second time.
- Matthew 24:21For at that time there will be great distress, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 7:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5An 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5An only evil - An evil singular and remarkable above all others.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-9A second message repeats that the coming judgment would be personal. The people would not only know that God is the Lord, as in Ezekiel 7:4. They would feel his judgment in their own lives. The Lord, who once revealed himself to his people as “the LORD who heals you” (Exodus 15:26), had now become “the LORD, who strikes the blow.” The day of the Lord had arrived. This is a time when God steps in to judge and act in power (Joel 1:15; Amos 5:18–20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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