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Ezekiel 7:5
5“This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster – a one-of-a-kind disaster – 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, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge you according to your behavior, I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices. 4My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the Lord! “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster – a one-of-a-kind disaster – is coming! 6An end comes – the end comes! It has awakened against you – the end is upon you! Look, it is coming! 7Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains.
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 5:9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.
- 2 Kings 21:12So this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it.
- Daniel 9:12He has carried out his threats against us and our rulers who were over us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!
- Amos 3:2“I have chosen you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”
- Nahum 1:9Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.
- Matthew 24:21For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
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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