Ezekiel 7:2

Judgment on Israel Is Near

1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 “And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel:
^a‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

3 Now the end has come upon you,
And I will send My anger against you;
I will judge you ^aaccording to your ways,
And I will repay you for all your abominations.

4 ^aMy eye will not spare you,
Nor will I have pity;
But I will repay your ways,
And your abominations will be in your midst;
^bThen you shall know that I am the Lord!’

5 “Thus says the Lord God:
‘A disaster, a singular ^adisaster;
Behold, it has come!

6 An end has come,
The end has come;
It has dawned for you;
Behold, it has come!

7 ^aDoom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
^bThe time has come,
A day of trouble is near,
And not of rejoicing in the mountains.

8 Now upon you I will soon ^apour out My fury,
And spend My anger upon you;
I will judge you according to your ways,
And I will repay you for all your abominations.

9 ‘My eye will not spare,
Nor will I have pity;
I will¹ repay you according to your ways,
And your abominations will be in your midst.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord who strikes.

10 ‘Behold, the day!
Behold, it has come!
^aDoom has gone out;
The rod has blossomed,
Pride has budded.

11 ^aViolence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
None of¹ them shall remain,
None of their multitude,
None of them;
^bNor shall there be wailing for them.

12 The time has come,
The day draws near.
‘Let not the buyer ^arejoice,
Nor the seller ^bmourn,
For wrath is on their whole multitude.

13 For the seller shall not return to what has been sold,
Though he may still be alive;
For the vision concerns the whole multitude,
And it shall not turn back;
No one will strengthen himself
Who lives in iniquity.

Commentaries:

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Ezekiel personifies the end as an executioner who has woken early to await his orders to execute judgment. God warns us that what we face is not an end, but the end, a singular disaster awaits those of us in this end-time generation. We have earned it as a result of the violent abominations done in our midst. This singular unique occurrence corresponds to Jeremiah 30:7, "the time of Jacob's trouble."

Ezekiel 7:10 gives a cause for this: "Pride has budded." What has it produced? Violence! God shows in Proverbs 13:10, "By pride comes only contention, but with the well-advised is wisdom."

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Sixth Commandment (Part One) (1997)

Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Ezekiel 7:2:

Revelation 13:1-10
Revelation 17:1-13

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