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Ezekiel 7:5
5“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Disaster! Unheard-of disaster! See, it comes!
Ezekiel 7:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
- 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!
- New Living Translation (NLT)“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Disaster after disaster is coming your way!
Context of Ezekiel 7:5
3The end is now upon you, and I will unleash my anger against you. I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices. 4I will not look on you with pity; I will not spare you. I will surely repay you for your conduct and for the detestable practices among you. “ ‘Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Disaster! Unheard-of disaster! See, it comes! 6The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. See, it comes! 7Doom has come upon you, upon you who dwell in the land. The time has come! The day is near! There is panic, not 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 5:9Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.
- 2 Kings 21:12Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
- Daniel 9:12You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
- Amos 3:2“You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”
- Nahum 1:9Whatever they plot against the Lord he will bring to an end; trouble will not come a second time.
- Matthew 24:21For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled 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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