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 have compassion for you or feel sorry for you. I will pay you back for the way you have lived and for the detestable things you have done. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 5“This is what the Almighty Lord says: One disaster after another is coming. The end is coming. The end is coming. It is stirring itself up against you. It is coming! 7Destruction is coming to you, inhabitants of the land. The time is coming. The day is near. There will be confusion. There will be no joy in the mountains. 8Soon I will pour out my fury on you and unleash my anger on you. I will judge you for the way you have lived, and I will punish you for all the detestable things that you have done.

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 7:3Now the end is coming for you. I will send my anger against you. I will judge you for the way you have lived, and I will punish you for all the detestable things that you have done.
• Jeremiah 44:27I am going to watch over them. I am going to watch over them to bring disasters, not blessings. In Egypt the people from Judah will die in wars and famines until everyone is gone.
• Zechariah 13:7“Arise, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my friend,” declares the Lord of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. Then I will turn my hand against the little ones.”
• Ezekiel 7:10“The day is near! It is coming! Destruction is coming! Wrongdoing has blossomed. Arrogance has flourished.
• Ezekiel 21:25“You dishonest and wicked prince of Israel, the time for your final punishment has come.
• Ezekiel 39:8“ ‘It’s coming! It will happen! declares the Almighty Lord. This is the day I have spoken about.
• 2 Peter 2:5God didn’t spare the ancient world either. He brought the flood on the world of ungodly people, but he protected Noah and seven other people. Noah was his messenger who told people about the kind of life that has God’s approval.

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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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