Ezekiel 7:6

Ezekiel 7:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
• New International Version (NIV)The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. See, it comes!
• English Standard Version (ESV)An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.
• New King James Version (NKJV)An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come!

Context of Ezekiel 7:6

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.” 5This is what the Lord God says: Look, one disaster after another is coming! An 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. 8I will pour out my wrath on you very soon; I will exhaust my anger against you and judge you according to your ways. I will punish you for all your detestable practices.

Ezekiel 7:6 word by word

קֵ֣ץ בָּ֔א בָּ֥א הַקֵּ֖ץ הֵקִ֣יץ אֵלָ֑יִךְ הִנֵּ֖ה בָּאָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• An endקֵץqêts · endH7093
• is comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• it watchethקִיץqûts · to awakeH6974

Cross-references for Ezekiel 7:6

• Ezekiel 7:3The 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.
• Jeremiah 44:27I am watching over them for disaster and not for good, and everyone from Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine until they are finished off.
• Zechariah 13:7Sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate — this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.
• Ezekiel 7:10Here is the day! Here it comes! Doom is on its way. The rod has blossomed; arrogance has bloomed.
• Ezekiel 21:25And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your punishment.
• Ezekiel 39:8Yes, it is coming, and it will happen. This is the declaration of the Lord God. This is the day I have spoken about.
• 2 Peter 2:5and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly;

Commentaries on Ezekiel 7:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee - This is similar to the second verse; but there is a paronomasia, or play upon letters and words, which is worthy of note. אליך הקץ הקץ בא בא קץ kets ba, ba hakkets, hekits elayich . קצה katsah signifies to make an end or extremity, by cutting off something, and יקץ yakats signifies to awake from sleep: hence קיץ kits, the summer, as the earth and its productions seem then to awake from the sleep of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6The end is come: it watcheth for thee - The end (personified) so long slumbering now awakes and comes upon thee.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. 66. watcheth for thee--rather, "waketh for thee." It awakes up from its past slumber against thee (Psa 78:65, 66).Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 7:6

• Wicked (People)

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• doom

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